Morelia, Michoacán.- In Michoacan abortion is still a crime and there is no access to a legal termination of pregnancy without conditionsGiven this today, Senator Olga Sánchez Cordero pointed out that this is “institutional violence”.
During a small positioning that he gave during his visit to the city of Moreliastressed that we cannot continue to allow women are criminalized for making decisions.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) has already said criminalizing women for abortion is an attack on the human rights of thisso the state congresses must legislate for the decriminalization of abortion.
Sánchez Cordero recalled it in a strong and clear way, also pointed out that it is no longer acceptable that institutions continue to violate women by not allowing them access to safe abortions.
“The court has already decided this on several occasions respecting the legislation of each state. What we cannot continue to accept is the recriminalization of a woman who made one of the most difficult decisions of her life.
Let it be recorded here, because it is institutional violence, it is state violence against a woman, and let it be recorded here! Sanchez Cordero said.
Additionally he said, “Those who criminalize women for having made these decisions are their worst violators and aggressors”this position was given at the end of his participation in the forum “Institutional Challenges in the Face of Feminicidal Violence”, organized by the Secretariat for Substantive Equality and Development of Women (Seimujer).
During her participation, the senator had the courtesy of placing a green scarf around her neck, a symbol of the fight for the decriminalization of abortion, in addition, she received a letter from ILEMichan association of feminist collectives that has fought for decriminalization in the state.
In this letter, the 21 collectives that make up ILEMich They ask for political intercession in favor of the decriminalization of abortion in Michoacán, to the letter says:
“Today we ask for your support to raise our voices for us and all our colleagues who have struggled for decades to achieve substantive equality and freedom to decide on our bodies and our lives.
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We strongly ask that you make a call to the unit on the left so that the 6 initiatives that seek to legalize voluntary abortion that have been presented to the Congress of Michoacán, two of them citizen proposals prepared by us, are studied and discussed; his voice has an invaluable weight and we are convinced that it will significantly contribute to untying the Gordian knot of particular beliefs, fears and indecision that turns our deputies into accomplices of a system that legitimizes the violation of our rights, in a Congress that violates the Mexican Constitution and violates women“.
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