Sinaloa.- The organization Ipas Central America and Mexico (Ipas CAM) He pointed out that the Sinaloa Congress approved reforms to the Penal Code to consider that the woman or pregnant person who terminates the pregnancy process early, after the thirteenth week, commits the crime of “interruption of pregnancy”, which allows violations of human rights. reproductive health and makes it difficult for women, girls, adolescents and people with the capacity to gestate to access and provide abortion and obstetric services in general.
Fernanda Díaz de León Ballesteros, deputy director of advocacy for Ipas Central America and Mexico (Ipas CAM), shared for Debate that the first error lies in the fact that the approved opinion inverts concepts instead of defining what should be understood by “abortion”use the term “Interruption of pregnancy”.
“This is problematic and contrary to the national legal framework for all the effects that it may generate in its implementation. ‘Interruption of pregnancy’ is a medical concept that is used in the normative and regulatory framework of the provision of health services, to guide care for women at different stages of pregnancy in accordance with official provisions such as the Official Mexican Standard 046 (NOM 046), while ‘abortion’ is the name of the crime contained in national and local regulations,” he explained.
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The specialist shared that inverting the terms as was done in this opinion will generate confusion among the population, providers and providers of health services about the scope and legality of their actions in a wide range of obstetric services, as well as in health care systems. law enforcement, which opens the possibility of criminalization of users and providers of health services, as well as the violation of rights.
The organization Ipas Central America and Mexico (Ipas CAM), criticized that the recently approved ruling also enables the criminalization of reproductive events, including emergency obstetric care, which result in the early termination of the gestation process after 13 weeks, without intended to terminate pregnancy. This includes, to name a few examples, caesarean sections performed for health reasons of the pregnant person and anticipated deliveries.
“Another worrying aspect of what was approved this March 8 by local congressmen is that the proposed wording excludes forced abortions from criminal sanctions in certain circumstances, which leaves women who are forced to interrupt a pregnancy or who suffered an abortion as a result of physical or sexual violence,” she said.
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The foregoing, he maintained, generates a great deal of uncertainty, legal insecurity and lack of protection for the victims of crimes, but also for women in general for not recognizing their reproductive autonomy.
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