Overview
- The Supreme Court removed from its plenary agenda constitutional challenges to Aguascalientes’ 2024 reform that cut the legal window for elective abortion from 12 to six weeks.
- No new date was announced for resuming discussion of the consolidated actions of unconstitutionality 172/2024 and 173/2024.
- The challenges were filed in 2024 by the federal Executive and the National Human Rights Commission against provisions in the state penal code and a law protecting life from conception.
- Reproductive‑rights groups, including Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir, called the postponement a setback that prolongs legal and medical uncertainty for women in the state.
- Minister Irving Espinosa, the case rapporteur, said his draft sought to prevent states from arbitrarily shortening legal time limits and rejected the archdiocese’s claim that it would permit abortion at any stage.