They also asked the court to enjoin (forbid) the district attorney from prosecuting anyone else under the Texas abortion law in the future.
Most of these 19th century statutes were still in effect in 1970, when Norma McCorvey, a pregnant woman from Dallas, Texas, first challenged the constitutionality of a Texas abortion law.
Some state institutions are loosening up: the National Commission for Human Rights, an official body, which opposed Mexico City’s abortion law, has a new director and is not against gay marriage.
WHEN Catholic clergy or “pro-life”politicians argue that abortion laws should be tightened, they do so in thebelief that this will reduce the number of terminations.
The report points to a global trend towards the liberalisation of abortion laws, which has allowed women with an unwanted pregnancy to end it safely.
TO EQUAL measures of joy and dismay, Mexico’s Supreme Court has given the green light to ultra-conservative anti-abortion laws passed in the states of Baja California and San Luis Potosí.
