Overview

• Official data show 522 investigative files for abortion were opened nationwide from January to July 2025, underscoring continued criminal enforcement.
• Over the past decade, authorities have opened 7,511 abortion‑related investigations, according to the national public security system.
• Despite reforms expanding access, every state penal code still lists abortion as a crime and most jurisdictions only allow it up to 12 weeks.
• In Mexico City, where legal interruption of pregnancy has been available since 2007, 146 investigations were recorded in 2025 due to the penal code’s continued criminal classification.
• Civil society groups including GIRE, CDD, Abortistas Mx and Telefem call for full decriminalization and note that unsafe abortions drive maternal deaths, while CDD launched a sensitization campaign on CDMX public transport and online.