#green wave

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Jade Wave - Rani Garner

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Oil , 48 x 30 in.

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Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure

Mexico’s Supreme Court has thrown out all federal criminal penalties for abortion. The sweeping ruling issued Wednesday declared that nation

Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday [September 6], ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access.

The high court ordered that abortion be removed from the federal penal code. The ruling will require the federal public health service and all federal health institutions to offer abortion to anyone who requests it.

“No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker, will be able to be punished for abortion,” the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials GIRE, said in a statement.

Some 20 Mexican states, however, still criminalize abortion. While judges in those states will have to abide by the court’s decision, further legal work will be required to remove all penalties.

Celebration of the ruling soon spilled out onto social media.

“Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women!” Mexico’s National Institute for Women wrote in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The government organization called the decision a “big step” toward gender equality...

The Details

The court said on X that “the legal system that criminalized abortion” in Mexican federal law was unconstitutional because it “violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.” ...

-via AP News, September 6, 2023. Article continues below.

The decision came two years after the court ruled that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. That ruling set off a slow state-by-state process of decriminalizing it.

Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to drop criminal penalties.

Abortion-rights activists will have to continue seeking legalization state by state, though Wednesday’s decision should make that easier. State legislatures can also act on their own to erase abortion penalties.

For now, the ruling does not mean that every Mexican women will be able to access the procedure immediately, explained Fernanda Díaz de León, sub-director and legal expert for women’s rights group IPAS.

What it does do — in theory — is obligate federal agencies to provide the care to patients. That’s likely to have a cascade of effects...

Lifting Abortion Restrictions Across Latin America

Across Latin America, countries have made moves to lift abortion restrictions in recent years, a trend often referred to as a “green wave,” in reference to the green bandanas carried by women protesting for abortion rights in the region.

The changes in Latin America stand in sharp contrast to increasing restrictions on abortion in parts of the United States. Some American women were already seeking help from Mexican abortion rights activists to obtain pills used to end pregnancies.

Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago.

After decades of work by activists across the region, the trend picked up speed in Argentina, which in 2020 legalized the procedure. In 2022, Colombia, a highly conservative country, did the same.

-via AP News, September 6, 2023. Headings added.

[battlebots-daily]

Green Wave

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Tulane University Beach Volleyball

[paleo-violet]

Blue text: Would you have given up your own life to fulfill your mother's "right" to abortion?

Black text: Obviously you idiot, legal abortion now

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[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

anyway this reminds me of this WILD concept that's been adopted in German cities which they call "Grüne Welle" (green wave) where they coordinate traffic lights on long roads so that if you go about as fast as the speed limit, all your traffic lights will be green and you won't have to stop. this is to aid traffic flow, reduce emissions and it also makes driving so much less frustrating.

the uk has never heard of this concept and is allergic to implementing anything that would make the lives of its citizens easier. you WILL stand at every traffic light. it is faster and easier by far to navigate cities here by bike (but quite unsafe). if you're used in any way to user-friendly city design, you will fucking suffer driving in uk cities

please tell me if this green wave is a thing in other places??? or if its a german exclusive??? thank you

[connoratwood8]

Six courageous RiseUp4AbortionRights.org activists took the court at Barclays Center at a New York Liberty game (June 8) painted #Green4Abortion! They received a standing ovation. This demonstrates the depth of support for maintaining the legal right to Abortion. If we ALL stood up nonviolently and brought the gears of society to a grinding halt we could STOP THE SUPREME COURT FROM OVERTURNING ABORTION RIGHTS!

ACT NOW! Get off the sidelines. Get into the streets.

Disrupt business as usual. JOIN THE FIGHT:

RiseUp4AbortionRights.org