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Legal abortion is upheld: Mexico’s Supreme Court last week upheld the capital city’s abortion-rights law, dismissing a challenge brought by the conservative federal government. The law, which has been in effect for about a year, requires Mexico City health services to provide abortion free to any woman in the first trimester of pregnancy. The court rejected arguments by abortion opponents that the Mexican constitution protects the rights of fetuses. “Human-rights systems cannot require states to defend a right to life from conception,” Justice Genaro Gongora Pimentel said. “It would mean imposing ideologies and subjective values that could sacrifice other rights.” Mexico City is among the few places in Latin America where women can legally terminate pregnancies apart from rape and incest cases.

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