MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s supreme court ruled on Thursday that the protection of “life from conception” was unconstitutional, doubling down on its decision earlier this week that abortion was not a crime.
The ruling, stemming from a case out of Sinaloa state, has implications for Mexican states that have laws to defend a right to life from conception and put women at risk of prosecution for aborting a pregnancy.
The court’s decision, another blow to conservatives in the predominantly-Catholic nation, came days after its watershed ruling that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, a major victory for reproductive rights activists.
Hundreds of mostly poor Mexican women have been prosecuted for abortion, while at least several dozen remain jailed.
(Reporting by Cassandra Garrison; editing by Richard Pullin)
