Mexico decriminalises abortion in landmark ruling

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  1. Bowerbird

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    I missed this until recently - too focussed on the places where women’s rights are being eroded.
    Good on them! Apparently Mexico is becoming very progressive when it comes to women’s rights
    But meanwhile who wants to put money on there being an upcoming and thriving medical tourist industry between Texas and Mexico

    I mean that is what happened in Ireland women just hopped the ferry over to England and no one was the wiser.
     
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    just in time for the people of Texas to take short vacations south if needed
     
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    Ya, I saw this a few days ago....Mexico, so much more progressive than the US.

    They have LOTS of female politicians, more than the US...so that helped.

    And, yes, Texas women have a short hop to a nice "vacation" ....

    I bet righties do NOT care how many Mexican fetuses are aborted ;) ;)
     
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    I gather not a long drive from Austin Texas. As I said earlier women will just take short “vacations” which that Texas law was supposed to stop by offering the “riches for snitches” but from everything I have heard that section of the law will not stand
     
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    from what I am hearing is they never planned for it to pass, they were shocked the SC ignored it and did not hear the case

    republicans do not want to end abortion, they just want to pretend they want to in order to keep the fight going so they get the votes of evangelicals
     
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    ....and other extremists.....
     
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    Absolutely- sadly like cases elsewhere it will have to take the death of a woman to get this overturned
     
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    But remember how little value Anti-Choicers place on women's lives....
     
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    Mexico voted in a Socialist President.

    But I suspect progressives in the US won't be permanently relocating to Mexico any time soon.
     
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    The ruling only applies to abortions before 12 weeks.

    Would you like Australia and US law to be more like how it is in Mexico now?


    Bloomberg reports "The precedent set will prevent courts all around the country from prosecuting women accused of voluntarily ending a pregnancy before three months of gestation."
     
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    No, but it's handy for the oppressed women of Texass...
     
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    The majority of abortions occur before 12 weeks anyway

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    It seems so in America but I do think this is because you have had a decades long desensitisation campaign in relation to gun deaths
     

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