Mexico is decriminalizing abortion and offering services to women who choose to terminate their pregnancies.
Commitment description:Taking into account that: a) Target 3.7 of the Goal on health and well-being in the 2030 Agenda includes universal access to sexual and reproductive health; b) the Montevideo Consensus is the regional road map for fulfilling the Cairo Programme of Action, and that Priority Action 42 calls for ensuring legal abortion services for women who request them and urges states to consider modifying laws, regulations and strategies to decriminalize them; c) the Declaración de Puebla expresses aspirations and challenges on topics of population and development, and calls for accelerated action recognizing all sexual and reproductive rights; and d) the Human Rights Council, in its 2018 Universal Periodic Review, recommends that the Mexican state aligns national and subnational laws to decriminalize abortion in the country, MEXFAM commits to promoting and participating in a monitoring and social audit mechanism at the federal level by 2022, in collaboration with partner organizations, so that the Mexican state, through the legislative branch, complies with the recommendations that it accepted, and that resulted from the Human Rights Council review in 2018, which urge it to harmonize the national and subnational regulatory frameworks to decriminalize abortion in the country, allowing women, if they so choose, to legally and safely access pregnancy termination services. Indicators: a) An active citizen monitoring mechanism, raising awareness, issuing recommendations, and giving technical support to the legislative branch and b) A country report presented to the Human Rights Council, showing significant progress by the Mexican state towards national and subnational harmonization for the decriminalization of abortion, as well as progress in the provision of timely and high-quality health care services, so that women who so choose can legally access pregnancy termination services.
Modes of engagement:
- Change or creation of legislationEl compromiso requiere que se produzca un cambio en la legislación nacional y subnacional para armonizar los codigos penales a favor de la interrupción legal del embarazo por decisión de la mujer hasta la semana 12
- Programmatic actionEl compromiso también requiere que se oferten servicios oportunos y de calidad para que las mujeres que así lo decidan, accedan a la interrupción legal del embarazo hasta la semana 12
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
