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Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.

That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling.

The supreme court wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that it had decided that “the legal system that criminalized abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional, [because] it violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.”

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah.

So white ladies are going to start fleeing across the border to get abortions that they can't get in the States.

Conservatives really ARE trying to bring us back to the 1950s, aren't they?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Let them bring back the 1950s tax rate first

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I mean, that's kind of their whole shtick lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Europe we are back to the 1920s, so the great depression and another world war are still to come. You should be glad they are trying to bring you only as back as 1950s 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nationalism and far right movements are on the surge everywhere (except in Spain where the memory of dictatorship is still relatively fresh, just a generation ago).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hrm, I would say you're overstating things, at least in comparison to the very real issues mentioned here that pertain to the US.

Don't get me wrong, the evolution of politics in countries such as France, Germany, Poland and so on is more than just worrying, it's downright alarming.

But even in places where the right wing has managed to achieve political power, they have not managed to effect much regressive political change yet. That is to say, the US situation shows what will happen in the EU if this slide continues. And sure, it could be worse if "parties" (I dread to call people who want to abolish the current democracy a political party, tbh) like the AfD attain power, but again that hasn't happened yet, unlike some clearly xenophobic and active nazi-sympathizers in the US, or people like Santis or MTG.

Both are shit, but compared to the deeper red states in the US and the truly crazy places, most countries in Europe are a massive improvement, even with all their own problems.

[–] derpgon 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least in Czechia we do no have (or about to have) a psychopath president. So we should be okay for the next 3 years at least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a nice change after 20 years of misery. I still haven't gotten used to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think that depends on your definition on Nationalism and far right movements. I personally wouldnt say we are back in the 1920s, but I guess we all have different opinions