Posted on 09/30/2021 6:25:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday invalidated an article of the General Health Law that broadly provided for medical personnel's conscientious objection to participating in treatments, such as abortion.
“The law did not establish the guidelines and limits necessary for conscientious objection to be exercised without jeopardizing the human rights of other persons, especially the right to health,” the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation announced Sept. 20.
The law, adopted in 2018, did not allow medical professionals to invoke conscientious objection "when the life of the patient is put at risk or it is a medical emergency."
Marcial Padilla, director of the prolife platform ConParticipación, commented that “instead of adopting conscientious objection in its entirety,” in its ruling the Supreme Court "puts it in suspense, saying that it does not like how it is formulated, because it prevents the realization of abortion, according to the terms that they wish."
The court is expected to discuss Sept. 21 clear guidelines for the exercise of conscientious objection and whether they will exhort or order the Congress of the Union to use a specific text in legislating on the topic.
Discussion of conscientious objection at the Supreme Court began Sept. 13. It recognized a right to conscientious objection, while adding that this does not restrict the right to health.
In recent weeks the Supreme Court has also invalidated several articles that protected life from conception in the penal code of the state of Coahuila, and parts of the Sinaloa state constitution protecting life from conception. The rulings are expected to have wide-ranging effects throughout Mexico.
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The last time the Mexican Supreme Court made an anti-God’s Law ruling, was when they legalized abortion and there was a large earthquake. I wonder what He will do to acknowledge this rulling?
There are zero cases where an abortion is required to save the life of the mother.
Surgeries to address ectopic pregnancies are not abortions, btw.
Ok, so a woman’s right to choose (to kill her offspring), but what about the “health” care provider’s right to choose?
Let’s see what the Pope says. Maybe he will take on their harsh immigration laws at the same time.
This and the recent approval of abortion in Malta have me convinced that proabortion money is pouring into any country that still has laws restricting abortion or allowing for conscience objections.
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