Overview

• Feminist collectives rallied nationwide and stopped at the Senate in Mexico City, pressing lawmakers to erase the crime of abortion from federal and state codes after delivering a new initiative to Congress this week.
• Official data cited by organizers report 7,511 investigation files for abortion opened in the last decade and 522 from January to July 2025, with Mexico City logging 1,471 since 2015 and 146 so far this year.
• Clinician networks such as Salvemos Miles de Vidas México urged Congress to regulate abortion as a health service, pointing to Supreme Court rulings that invalidated criminalization and ordered removal from the Federal Penal Code.
• Access gaps persisted despite legal changes, with activists documenting denials, shortages and broad use of conscientious objection in states like Michoacán, as well as supply failures in Hidalgo and uneven availability in Chiapas.
• Collectives highlighted ongoing state-level penal provisions and reported cases like the recent denial to a 10-year-old rape victim in Tamaulipas, calling for limits on objection, clear protocols, adequate funding and Cofepris oversight.