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Abortion, referring to an induced abortion or voluntary termination of pregnancy, is a controversial issue in Mexico. Since 2007, abortion procedures are legal and decriminalized in Mexico City for the first 12 weeks into a pregnancy – on request by any woman – but forbidden in 18 out of 31 Mexican states.〔 , 52,484 interruptions have been carried out in the capital city since its decriminalization (2007)〔 and more than a dozen women haven been sentenced to up to 30 years in prison in conservative-leaning states such as Guanajuato. == History == In 1931, 14 years after the writing of the national Constitution, the Mexican Government addressed abortion by making it illegal except in the cases when the abortion is caused by the negligence of the mother, continuation of the pregnancy endangers the life of the mother, or in pregnancy resulting from rape. In 1974, Mexico introduced ''Ley General de Poblacion'', which required that the government provide free family planning services in all public health clinics and created the ''Programa Nacional de Planificacion Familiar'' to implement the new law. That same year, Mexico amended its Constitution in order to recognize every Mexican citizen’s “right to freely decide, in a responsible and informed manner, on the number and spacing of their children.” 〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Capítulo I de los Derechos Humanos y sus Garantías, Artículo 4 )〕 Up until the 1990s, the Mexican government considerably expanded its family planning services to rural areas and less-developed parts of the country, reducing inequalities in family planning services and contraceptive provision.〔 Contraceptive use doubled from 1976, but the annual rate of increase slowed down in 1992, and has come to a standstill in recent years.〔 According to data provided by the Guttmacher Institute, in 1996, Mexico had the lowest number, among Latin America, of percentage of women who underwent an abortion procedure – 1 in 40 Mexican woman – a rate of 2.5%. In 2009, Mexico’s national abortion rate was at about 38 abortions per 1,000 for women between the ages of 15–44, which is at 3.8%. These rates are important to consider because of Mexico’s stringent and anti-abortion laws, and therefore might not be the most accurate representation of the actual data.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Guttmacher Institute )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abortion in Mexico」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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