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New York/Washington, Oct 9 (EFE/EPA).- A federal appeals court in the United States on Friday reinstated the restrictive anti-abortion law enforced in Texas, just two days after a lower court judge had temporarily blocked it.The decision to reinstate the law, which came into effect on Sep. 1 and practically bans almost all abortions in Texas, was taken by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, considered one of the most conservative in the country. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE GATHER IN NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON DC, US, TO PROTEST AGAINST TEXAS ANTI-ABORTION LAW.
Mexico City, Sep 7 (EFE).- Mexico's Supreme Court (SJCN) on Tuesday declared criminalizing abortion to be unconstitutional, setting an historic precedent that prevents women obtaining abortions and medical personnel helping them with their consent from being jailed."Never again will a woman ... be criminally judged. Today, the threat of prison and the stigma weighing on people who freely decide to interrupt their pregnancies has been banished," said Supreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar, the author of the move, said.The Supreme Court justices unanimously invalidated Article 196 of the Coahuila Penal Code, whereby in the northern border state a three-year prison sentence could be handed down to women found guilty of voluntarily have an "abortion or the person who performs the abortion with consent." (Camera: AMERICA NERI).SHOT LIST: A GROUP OF PEOPLE AGAINST ABORTION DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE NATION, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
Washington, Jun 29 (EFE).- The US Supreme Court on Monday overturned a law that would have severely restricted access to abortion in Louisiana, dealing a heavy blow to the campaign undertaken by several conservative states to restrict to the max the medical procedure that has been legal in this country for almost half a century.(CAMERA: Edwin Ramírez)STATEMENTS FROM PRUDENCE ROBERTSON (activist from the SBA):SERENA DYKSEN
Chile's Constitutional Court Monday approved an easing of the country's abortion ban to make the procedure legal in cases of rape, threat to the mother's life or deadly birth defects. IMAGES of pro-abortion activists celebrating in front of tribunal
Texas was blocking the free will of its female population with its 2013 regulations on abortion. Gladly, The Supreme Court just struck down this law, making the future of young women a brighter one.
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Texas law imposing strict regulations on abortion doctors and facilities that its critics say were specifically designed to shut down clinics. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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