Abortion is a controversial issue in Mexico, where it is offered on request to any woman up to twelve weeks into a pregnancy in Mexico City, but forbidden in 18 out of 31 Mexican state constitutions.As of 19 January 2011, 52,484 interruptions have been carried out in the capital city since its decriminalization (2007) and more than a dozen women haven been sentenced to up to 30 years in prison in conservative-leaning states such as Guanajuato.
In Mexico, abortion proceedings fall under local state legislation, as a landmark, Supreme Court decision in 2008 found no legal impediment to it in the federal Constitution and stated that, "to affirm that there is an absolute constitutional protection of life in gestation would lead to the violation of the fundamental rights of women".
All states penal codes permit abortions in cases of rape, and all but Guanajuato, Guerrero and Queretaro's permit it to save the mother's life; fourteen out of thirty-one expand these cases to include severe fetal deformities; and the state of Yucatan includes economic factors when the mother has previously borne three or more children. Nevertheless, according to Jo Tuckman of The Guardian, in practice almost no state provides access to abortions in the cases listed, but also they prosecute neither the doctors who offer safe illegal abortions nor the cheaper life-threatening backstreet practitioners.
There are, however, some exceptions. Since 2007 Mexico City —where approximately 7.87% of the national population lives— offers abortion on request to any woman up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy which, along with Cuba and Uruguay, is one of the most liberal legislations on this matter in Latin America In contrast, recent political lobbying on behalf of the dominant Roman Catholic Church and pro-life organizations has resulted in the amendment of more than half of the state constitutions, which now define a fertilized human egg as a person with a right to legal protection. As of 15 October 2009, none of those states has removed its exceptions to abortion to reflect the changes in its constitution, but according to Human Rights Watch and a local NGO, over the past eight years the conservative-leaning state of Guanajuato "has denied every petition by a pregnant rape victim for abortion services" and about 130 of its residents have been sentenced for seeking or providing illegal abortion.
Let`s make a best Mexico and reduce the numbers of abortion, Let`s save a life and don`t kill them