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September 26, 2019

Mexican State of Oaxaca Decriminalizes Abortion
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In Mexico, lawmakers in the southern state of Oaxaca approved a bill
Wednesday decriminalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of
pregnancy. Oaxaca becomes just the second region of Mexico - after
Mexico City - to permit abortions. This is pro-choice activist Pilar
Muriedas.

Pilar Muriedas: "The victory is not only for Oaxaca - the law, yes - but
it means this gives hope to the other states where women who decide to
have an abortion legally are punished."

This comes just days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
sent lawmakers a bill that would grant amnesty to women serving prison
terms for abortion.


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