Abortion is not a Right, but a Crime, Say Mexican Women's Groups: A coalition of Mexican women's organizations and other NGOs denounced the promotion of abortion as a 'right,' a claim made with increasing frequency in the nation's media.
The organizations decry the use of maternal mortality statistics as a 'pretext' to pressure officials to legalize abortion, pointing out that the World Health Organization attributes only 13 percent of such cases to unsafe abortions. Claudia Perez of Codigo Mujer (Women's Code) observed that the major causes of maternal mortality are not being addressed, and that poor women often don't have access even to antibiotics to treat hemorrhages or infections, a violation of their constitutional right to health care.
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