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Mexico’s Top Court Orders Morelos to Guarantee Abortion Access Without Penal Code Reform

The ruling stems from an amparo that binds the Morelos executive to act before legislators change the law.

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SCJN ordena garantizar aborto legal en Morelos: autoridades deben actuar aunque no se reforme el Código Penal. - Imagen ilustrativa hecha con IA (Copilot).

Overview

  • By a three-vote majority, the SCJN’s Primera Sala granted amparo en revisión 570/2024 and ordered Governor Margarita González Saravia and Servicios de Salud de Morelos to ensure immediate access to legal abortion.
  • State authorities must refrain from applying Penal Code provisions that criminalize voluntary abortion until lawmakers revise the law, protecting patients and medical personnel from prosecution.
  • The decision instructs the governor to file a new decriminalization initiative or advance a committee opinion discussed in May 2025 to a plenary vote in the state Congress.
  • Health services led by Mario Ocampo Ocampo must establish abortion care, train medical staff, and conduct public information campaigns to eliminate stigma and ensure dignified treatment.
  • The case was brought by 48 women and others with capacity to gestate as part of a 2022-onward strategy by Divulvadoras, Campaña Aborto Legal Morelos, and AbortistasMx, with activists reporting 20 investigations for abortion in 2024.