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 Health & Beauty | May 2007 
Modest Demand for First-Trimester Abortions
 El Universal
| | Nuns take part in an anti-abortion march in Mexico City April 22, 2007. The debate over a radical new law legalizing abortion in Mexico City may be the jolt that was needed to bring Catholic drifters back in line with the faith's values, a top Church spokesman said. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters) |
The demand for first-trimester abortions in Mexico City has been modest but steady since the procedure was legalized, the city´s top health official said Monday.
About 230 pregnancies have been interrupted at public hospitals in the capital in the last month, city Health Secretary Manuel Mondragón said at a press conference.
At least another 140 have been requested. Hundreds more pregnancy terminations are thought to have been performed at private hospitals since the city´s legislative assembly (ALDF) passed the measure on April 24.
Mondragón indicated that women seeking legal abortions come from varied backgrounds. About half the unwanted pregnancies came in the context of an established relationship, and half are high school graduates.
More than 70 percent of those seeking the procedure at public city hospitals are uninsured. Another 17.8 percent belong to one of the two federal social security systems (IMSS and ISSSTE), but had to apply to the city system because the Calderón administration has refused to allow any federal hospital to comply with the new city law.
Mondragón said 81.4 of those who received abortions in city-run hospitals were Catholic.
Only 2.9 percent underwent the procedure in the 12th week of their pregnancy, the latest allowed by law. About two-thirds went in before the 10th week.
The capital´s liberal law has attracted women with unwanted pregnancies from other states in the Republic. Most come from the adjacent State of Mexico, but Mondragón also reported cases from Jalisco, Nayarit and Coahuila.
Mexican Attorney General to Challenge Abortion Law in Supreme Court
John Jalsevac - LifeSiteNews.com
Mexico City – Mexico’s government-appointed attorney general, Eduardo Medina Mora, has joined the effort to overturn Mexico City’s new law permitting abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, by taking the issue to the Supreme Court, reports Reuters.
According to Reuters, Eduardo Mora said in a statement last Friday that the Supreme Court had already previously demonstrated that the abortion law was unconstitutional.
Mora will be arguing the pro-life case before the Supreme Court along with José Luis Soberanes Fernández, president of the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico, who has also presented a motion to have the Court declare the law unconstitutional.
In order for a motion of unconstitutionality to pass, thereby opening debate on a certain law, 8 of the 11 magistrates in the Supreme Court must vote in favor of the motion.
Mexico’s ruling party, the National Action Party, is strongly opposed to the new law, which was passed by the leftist party that holds power in Mexico City.
Read the full Reuter's report:
Top Mexico rights official challenges abortion law
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