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Jalisco's Anti-Abortion Governor Accused
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June 26, 2009
| | Jalisco state governor Emilio González Márquez | |
A state governor who refuses to authorize hospitals to practice abortions on women who are rape victims was denounced by female federal deputies who demand a political trial.
Jalisco governor Emilio González Márquez, the plaintiffs say, has consistently refused to apply the Mexican Official Norm that by law says that public and private hospitals are under obligation to practice abortions on female victims of rape.
The request for a political trial was presented in the Chamber of Deputies which also denounces the fact that governor González has funneled $443 million pesos to help Catholic organizations and churches.
"The failure to apply the norm to interrupt pregnancy is only promoting clandestine abortions. The crime of rape has the highest criminal rates in the state of Jalisco with a rate of 10.7 percent per each 100,000 inhabitants, said deputy Mricela Contreras, and that over the past year the state of Jalisco alone has had 7,494 rape incidents.
Deputy Angelica Tagle said they are requesting a political trial because "the straw that broke the camel's back" was that the governor violated the Mexican Constitution by not permitting the application of the norm in hospitals.
"That norm is not a whim of the legislators or some women in the nation but it is an obligation of the Mexican government to give health services to those women who are the victims of sexual abuse," Tagle said.
She called governor Gonzalez's action "absurd" and that is why the women deputies are demanding a political trial.
Deputy Elsa Conde said that the right to an abortion in case of rape was a tool the people can use to question public officials who deny them their constitutional rights.
Rosario Ortiz said the trial could be carried out under the protocol of the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, of which Mexico is part of. |
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