In Mexico, legal struggle to free women jailed for abortion continues

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The laws even applied to women who haven’t had an abortion, but who suffered miscarriages.She went to live with relatives in the Guerrero city of Iguala, where she was taken to a hospital for bleeding.She was given a blood transfusion and miscarried, and then was shocked to find herself handcuffed to the hospital bed.Guerrero is one of Mexico’s 26 states where changes have still not been made to state legal codes following the Supreme Court ruling in September.Even as the decriminalization drive progresses, abortion-rights activists said that government authorities are doing too little to raise awareness about abortion access and help low-income women afford the procedure."

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