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Diana Baptista, Thomson Reuters Foundation
* American women travel to Mexico to take abortion medication
* Court No abortion case can be prosecuted in Mexico
* US Supreme Court ruling set to trigger further ban
by Diana Baptista
Mexico City, 6 24th May (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – 2nd floor of a house on the outskirts of a Mexican city Monterey, Sandra Cardona and Vanessa Jimenez have provided hundreds of women with free abortion pills. Many of them do not have access to procedures when Americans return home.
"Women come here for fear of dying and being prosecuted," Cardona told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. "But when an abortion takes place, they find that it has nothing to worry about."
The US Supreme Court on Friday Roev. Before the ruling to overturn Wade,https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-overturns-abortion-rights-landmark-2022-06-24,メキシコの流産権活動家は、流産法を強化している保守的な米国の州の女性を支援するために地下ネットワークを強化していた。
Cardona said that every week from February, their group called Necesito Abortar (I Need An Abortion) would go to an abortion clinic in the United States or abortion. He said he provided the drug to about 10 women who could not secure the drug.
Despite strict restrictions on abortion in most of Mexico, women cannot be charged to end their pregnancy, and the misoprostol misoprost is from a pharmacist without a prescription of 600 pesos ($ 30). You can buy it.
It was founded five years ago to help local and immigrant women in Monterey, the industrial center of the border state of Nuevo Leon, where abortion is taking place. It is provided free of charge by Necesito Abortar. Only allowed in the case of rape or when the health of the mother is at stake.
Occasionally, the group received a call for help from a woman living across the border and found it cheaper and easier to take a two-hour bus trip to Mexico for an abortion. rice field.
However, as abortion restrictions have been tightened in many US states from Texas to Oklahoma over the past year, inquiries from US women have begun to flow to the group's Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok inboxes. I did.
To meet growing demand, Cardona and Jimenez turned their offices into smaller apartments with desks, kitchens and bathrooms. There is Wi-Fi and there is a comfortable place for women to rest while taking the pill.
"We rent them a house. If they need to eat, we give them what we make. Ours. Are all theirs, "Cardona said.
Strict abortion law
One of Mexico's most stringent abortion laws, the local group LasLibres (The Free), further south of Guanafato, is primarily Roman Catholic Latin America. It spread all over.
Mexico, where the Supreme Court ruled that the penalties for abortion were unconstitutional in Septemberhttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-supreme-court-rules-criminalizing-abortion-is-unconstitutional-2021-09-07,を含む一部の国では、手続きを非犯罪化する最近の動きにもかかわらず、この地域には依然として世界で最も厳しい中絶法のいくつかがあります。
Like Monterey activists, members of Las Libre Help women have free access to abortion medications on a network of safe locations and self-manage medical abortions.
"The first network was built by a woman who experienced a medical abortion and discovered that she could buy pills for others in her situation," said the founder of Las Libres. One Veronica Cruz says.
A network of supporters to the World Health Organizationhttps://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1280116/retrieveの推奨に従います。
Medical Abortion on How Individuals Up to 12 Weeks of Pregnancy Self-Manage Abortion with Mifepriston and Misoprostol Medications Usually includes both medications taken at 24-48 hour intervals. Misoprostol is less effective than the 2-pill method, but can be used alone as an abortion drug.
Friday's US Supreme Court announced the groundbreaking 1973 Roe v. Wade's ruling grants women the right to abortion, which is expected to lead to severe restrictions or bans on abortion in half of the country's states. https://news.trust.org/item/20201231112641-qfynt.
It is also likely to cause a surge in demand for abortion drugshttps://news.trust.org/item/20220624152713-jqufe,健康専門家は言う。
"Women from the United States find it most shocking. Growing up with the right to legal abortion, from one day to the next, that right was lost and they are now at risk of being prosecuted, "Cruz said.
Immigrants, Colored Races
The same week that the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that the crime of abortion was unconstitutional, the United States. The state of Texas has enacted the strictest anti-abortion law in the country, banning dismissals from about 6 weeks of pregnancy.
Encouraged by the groundbreaking ruling of a Mexican court, Las Libre and Nessesito Abolter met with a Texas group in January to form a cross-border dating network. We talked about how to expand.
From February to April, Las Libres is a 1,000-pack abortion drughttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/with-pills-burner-phones-mexican-abortion-activists-prepare-roe-v-wade-overturn-2022-06-23を米国の女性に無料で郵送し、テキサス、オハイオ、オクラホマ、フロリダなどの州の女性に仮想の交際を提供しました。厳しい制限。
Crystal Perez is based in the Mexican border city of Tijuana and has been an immigrant for the past six years. He leads the group Colectiva Bloodys, which has helped low-income women seek abortion.
Members of the group regularly transport misoprostr packets across national borders and mail them free of charge to women in need in the United States.
In particular, the group provided assistance to immigrants and colored women who could not afford to travel or buy medicine at a mischief clinic, which often costs $ 600 in the United States.
"We want women to know that abortion is an option, and we want to make sure they know how to contact us if needed. "Perez said.
More stringent anti-abortion restrictions are expected in the United States, but Cardona said women shouldn't be afraid because they can get help.
"The court can overturn whatever they want, and the state may limit as much as they want," she said. "But women need to know that they can't be deprived of their rights as long as they are organized."
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