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Title: Constructing access to legal abortion services in Mexico City.
Author: Deborah L. Billings
Publication: Reproductive Health Matters (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Reproductive Health Matters
Volume: 10 Issue: 19 Page: 86(9)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Abstract For the last three decades, government and health institutions have recognised that unsafe abortion is an important social and public health problem in Mexico. Although the Penal Code in every state defines at least one situation in which abortion is legal, access to legal abortion services is restricted for women throughout Mexico. In August 2000, the Mexico City Legislative Assembly reformed the Penal Code to include a wider range of grounds on which abortion is legal and added regulations to ensure access to legal abortion services in cases of rape and forced artificial insemination. The Mexican Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the reforms in January 2002. This paper describes a collaborative project between Ipas Mexico and the...
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