The intervention consisted of the projection of testimonial video portraits on mobile screens, which traveled through strategic and emblematic roads and sites in Mexico City to make visible the stories of those who have accompanied, practiced or lived through an abortion in contexts marked by stigma, institutional abandonment and criminalization.
As part of the 28S, Ipas LAC launches the digital fundraising campaign “Transform the world” to promote collective actions to ensure the right to decide and access to legal and safe abortion in the region.
In Mexico, abortion is regulated by the Penal Codes of each state. Contrary to what is generally thought, abortion is a legal health service in the country and is decriminalized under certain situations or conditions, depending on the state of the Mexican Republic in which the termination of pregnancy is performed, so that people who have abortions and those who assist them in these cases cannot be punished for it.
Under the slogan “Today and always, together forward,” on International Women’s Day, Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC) once again speaks out in favor of safe abortion, because when women and people with the capacity to bear children are denied the possibility of choosing over their own bodies, they are also denied their human rights; because when we talk about rights, we are talking about real lives.
The decision of the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) towards a more inclusive, just and humane public health policy is a step towards the guarantee of the right to health, as well as “a sign of the clear understanding that the termination of pregnancy is a health service like any other,” said Mara Zaragoza, deputy director of the ISSSTE, in a statement.said Mara Zaragoza, Deputy Director of Strengthening at Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC).
El Salvador, December 20, 2024. “I just want to live,” Beatriz said 11 years ago. Beatriz was a young mother of a small child, sick with lupus and living in poverty. In 2013 she faced a second high-risk pregnancy, in which the fetus was diagnosed as having anencephaly, meaning it had not developed a brain, a condition incompatible with life outside the womb.
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