Overview
- María Estela Ríos González said during a Supreme Court session that someone born through in vitro fertilization might not be considered part of a family.
- Her comment came as the Court debated a challenge to a Chihuahua law naming a family-focused unit within a prosecutor’s office handling gender-based crimes, a project she voted against invalidating.
- A clip of her remarks posted to X by journalist Azucena Uresti drew tens of thousands of views and hundreds of critical comments.
- Ríos González later urged that her statement not be taken out of context, saying it was an illustrative example and did not question the rights or family belonging of people conceived via assisted reproduction.
- Coverage added medical context defining IVF and cited estimates of its prevalence in countries like Sweden, Australia and the United States, noting Mexico lacks consolidated national data.