Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.

That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling.

The supreme court wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that it had decided that “the legal system that criminalized abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional, [because] it violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.”

  • Stern
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    3310 months ago

    Lot of folks hop the border for a bit for the far cheaper dental care down there.

    • @CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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      2410 months ago

      I’ve heard of a lot of people doing this. Pretty bad when driving to an entire other country for dental care is cheaper.

      • @Nastybutler@lemmy.world
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        710 months ago

        Driving? Hell I had a coworker who would fly there from Alaska to get dental work done and even with his week long hotel stay while he recuperated still saved thousands of dollars

        • @CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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          110 months ago

          I’ve heard horror stories, ironically all from dentists in the US, about dentists in Mexico. But I hear a lot more stories like yours about how it was great, and they managed to save a ton of money.

          • @Tarzan9192@sh.itjust.works
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            210 months ago

            I’m sure there are scammers, but my wife did a lot of research before we went. The dentist we went to in TJ actually got her degree in San Bernardino, CA like 40 mins from where we live. If you do your due diligence the process can go pretty smoothly, and yes, save a ton of cash.

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      110 months ago

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