Latin America Weekly Report

Bishops win legal battle on abortion. Excommunicated Chiapas Legislators give in
Latin America Weekly Report - 1991 - Latin America Weekly Report, 4

Keywords : congenital abnormalities; crime; diseases; family and household; family characteristics; family planning; family relationships; laws and statutes; legal aspects; mothers; neonatal diseases; neonatal diseases and abnormalities; parents; postconception fertility control; rape; social problems; therapeutic abortion; unmarried
Countries : Developing Countries; Latin America; Mexico; North America; North, America

Abstract : In October 1990, the state of Chiapas, Mexico, enacted legislation allowing abortions to be performed in the first three months of pregnancy under the following circumstances: a) when couples agree on abortion as a family planning measure; and b) when a woman is unmarried. The abortion law of Chiapas already allowed abortions to be performed in cases of rape, genetic defect, and risk to the pregnant woman's life. On 31 December 1991, the legislature suspended this legislation and referred the issue to Mexico's newly established Human Rights Commission.

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