MEXICO CITY, May 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life crowds took to the streets of Mexico’s capital on April 25 to commemorate the nearly 140,000 babies who have lost their lives to abortion since the law that allows killing the unborn was passed in Mexico City in 2007, and to demand that the Supreme Court of Justice not legalize abortion throughout the country.
The march, which according to the organizers included over 10,000 people, walked through the main streets of downtown Mexico City to the National Congress, where the crowd kept silent for a minute in honor of the deceased.
“We are here again, at the foot of this building, where one of the saddest pages in the history of our country was written eight years ago,” the organizers read out loud when they reached Congress.
“It’s surprising that all the polls show that at least two thirds of Mexican society is against abortion. … The Court should be in accordance with the thoughts and feelings of Mexicans,” they said.
The organizing members included Red Familia (Family Network), Pasos por la Vida (Steps for Life), and Parent’s National Union, among other pro-life associations.
The day before the march, on April 24, the state of Tlaxcala modified its Penal Code to allow for abortion in cases of rape, baby malformation, when the life or health of the mother are at risk, or when forceful artificial insemination has occurred, becoming the third state in Mexico to broaden its abortion restrictions.
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Mexico City is the only entity in the country that allows for free abortion up until 12 weeks gestation.
Since that law was passed in 2007, 18 of the 31 states in Mexico have modified their constitutions to protect the life of the unborn from conception, although every state allows it in cases of rape.
March organizers were worried that what had happened in Tlaxcala could set a precedent for other states to do the same, since the abortion law was broadened because Francisco Mixcoatl, president of Tlaxcala’s Human Rights Commission, argued a case of unconstitutionality against the local Penal Code, and according to the local newspaper Animal Político, stated that restricting abortion was against the principle of ‘non-discrimination’ of women and the protection of ‘reproductive rights’ guaranteed in the Constitution.
Tlaxcala’s bishop, Francisco Moreno, met with Mixcoatl to try to persuade him, to no avail, that abortion is a crime.
Local media also reported 4,000 people peacefully marching in front of Tlaxcala’s Humans Rights Commission on April 22, asking that their Penal Code not be modified.
“Abortion is not a right, but an attack on life, which is the fundamental right of every human being,” said Bishop Moreno to the people in the rally. “Abortion is killing a defenseless being, who has the right to live and whom we must protect,” he said.
The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice has still to analyze the case of ‘unconstitutionality’ in Tlaxcala, and decide if the same principle applies to the rest of the states throughout the country.