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Mexico City, Sep 7 (EFE).- Mexico's Supreme Court (SJCN) on Tuesday declared criminalizing abortion to be unconstitutional, setting an historic precedent that prevents women obtaining abortions and medical personnel helping them with their consent from being jailed."Never again will a woman ... be criminally judged. Today, the threat of prison and the stigma weighing on people who freely decide to interrupt their pregnancies has been banished," said Supreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar, the author of the move, said.The Supreme Court justices unanimously invalidated Article 196 of the Coahuila Penal Code, whereby in the northern border state a three-year prison sentence could be handed down to women found guilty of voluntarily have an "abortion or the person who performs the abortion with consent." (Camera: AMERICA NERI).SHOT LIST: A GROUP OF PEOPLE AGAINST ABORTION DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE NATION, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
Mexico City, Sep 6 (EFE), (CAMERA: Ulises Andrade Vela) .- Mexican conservative groups protest with prayers in front of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which Monday is debating a historic project that considers the criminalization of abortion in the first stage of pregnancy.
Mexico, Jul 29 (EFE) .- The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) rejected Wednesday a historic ruling that for the first time would order a local congress, that of the eastern state of Veracruz, reform its penal code to avoid the criminalization of abortion.(CAMERA: Denisse Torres)
Images of the US Supreme Court as justices decide to preserve access to the abortion pill, pending appeal. IMAGES
Dozens of abortion rights supporters rally against a Texas judge's decision to reverse the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, DC. On Friday, the nation's highest court temporarily preserved access to mifepristone, in an 11th-hour ruling preventing lower court restrictions on the drug from coming into force. IMAGES
Thousands of anti-abortion protesters march in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC during the "March for Life" protest, the first since the Supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade. IMAGES
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