In Mexico women have social and economic rights – access to jobs, education and land

Women have problems with sexual and reproductive rights

Since the 1960s the growing presence of women in Mexico’s universities reforms had occurred favoring greater legal equality between men and women, and legal access to modern methods of contraception was introduced

On April on 24th the Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal (ALDF) passed the reform that changed the City’s Penal Code, establishing a new criminal definition of abortion: ‘the interruption of pregnancy after the twelfth week of gestation and established penalties for abortion only ‘after twelve weeks of pregnancy’

On August 28th, 2008, the Supreme Court formed a law decriminalizing abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy thus abortion was constitutionally excepted in Mexico City

These results exceeded the expectations of feminist groups who had been lobbying to include a new clause for decriminalization: The new law also guaranteed free and high-quality medical care for women to be provided by Mexico City’s public hospitals