Mexico Supreme Court Upholds State Constitutions Banning Abortion Piero A. Tozzi - LifeNews.com
go to original May 8, 2013

The Mexican Supreme Court upheld two state constitutional amendments from Oaxaca and Guanajuato that had protected life from “conception,” rejecting an attempt by two pro-abortion justices to reopen an issue that many had hoped was closed by a 2011 Supreme Court decision.

Earlier in the week the Supreme Court also struck down another amendment but on narrow, procedural grounds, leaving the door open for the state of Queretaro to correct the defect and again pass its amendment protecting unborn life.

Pro-lifers were worried when the two stalwart justices of the Mexican Supreme Court stepped down last year, fearing that the hard-won battle to preserve state personhood amendments might one day be undone.

Last week, their concerns were heightened when two pro-abortion justices of the Supreme Court, Arturo Zaldivar and Fernando Franco González Salas, unexpectedly pushed not only to reopen the issue with regard to the amendments of three states, Queretaro, Guanajuato, and Oaxaca, but also sought to use judicial review as a vehicle to impose abortion upon the entire nation.  Both justices put forward proposals that, if adopted, would have amounted to the Roe v. Wade of Mexico.

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