Mexico's top court decriminalises abortion in 'watershed moment'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : It also comes as a growing feminist movement has taken to the streets in Mexico to press for change, including calls to end anti-abortion laws in much of the country.
45% : "We're very happy that abortion has been decriminalised, and now we want it to be legal," said 26-year-old Karla Cihuatl, one of the demonstrators, who belongs to the feminist organisation Frente Feminista in Saltillo.
42% : At a demonstration in the Coahuila state capital Saltillo, women wearing green bandanas to symbolise the pro-choice movement embraced and shouted "abortion is no longer a crime!"
39% : A number of American states have moved to restrict access to abortion, particularly Texas, which last week enacted a sweeping ban on the procedure after the first six weeks of pregnancy when the US Supreme Court declined to intervene.
38% : Coahuila's state government issued a statement saying the ruling would have retroactive effects and that any woman imprisoned for abortion should be released "immediately".
37% : Hundreds of mostly poor Mexican women have been prosecuted for abortion, while at least several dozen remain jailed.
35% : Mexico's Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that penalising abortion is unconstitutional, just days after parts of the United States enacted tougher laws against the practice.
35% : The vote by the 10 judges present stemmed from a 2018 case challenging a criminal law on abortion in Coahuila, a northern Mexican state which borders Texas, which has just tightened its laws.

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