Alejandra Yáñez / ACN.- A few months ago, we learned that an elected justice, a close friend and subordinate of the current Attorney General of the Republic, Ernestina Godoy, drafted a ruling to fully legalize abortion. Ernestina Godoy, when she was Legal Counsel to President Claudia Sheinbaum, promoted an action of unconstitutionality against the reform of the Aguascalientes Penal Code that limits abortion up to the sixth week of gestation. The elected justice proposes to remove the criminal classification of abortion from the catalog of offenses so that it would only be regulated by health authorities. What all Mexicans should know is that this justice is disqualified from ruling on this matter due to his close friendship with the plaintiff. It is worth recalling Article 512 of the Organic Law of the Federal Judiciary, which in its section II establishes that justices of the Supreme Court are disqualified from hearing cases when they have a manifest close friendship with any of the interested parties…
These justices are not jurists. They are ideologized lackeys who seek to impose their limited vision of human rights. The implications of removing the criminal classification of abortion are catastrophic. It is not only allowing the murder of the unborn throughout the entire gestation. It puts the lives of poor women at risk, who, facing an unexpected pregnancy, will believe that because it is legal, it is a harmless procedure. We do not have Denmark’s healthcare system; there are no medications, and it has been scientifically proven that abortion in advanced stages is indeed riskier for women.
It is also a ruling with regressive implications for women’s human rights. If abortion is removed as a crime… how would those who assault pregnant women and cause the death of their children be punished? Many will answer that it would be classified as injuries. Therefore, for the Court’s justices, killing a child in the womb is equivalent to an injury. A child is more than a bruise or a cut.
The justice uses as a pretext the principle of “minimal state intervention” to invalidate the criminal classification of abortion. It would only be a health issue regulated by authorities, who at their discretion could limit it to 12 weeks or leave it without limits, as in New York or California.
For these indifferent bureaucrats, the lives of unborn children are of no concern. Eating turtle eggs is severely punished, yet they elevate the murder of human beings in their intrauterine stage to the level of a right.
Poor our country, which with a captured judiciary is moving toward a more centralist system, imposing from the Federation a dehumanized vision of life and freedoms. For this government, it is false that the disappearance of persons is a crime against humanity. For these officials, the lives of unborn children lack all value. FOR THIS GOVERNMENT, LIFE IS WORTH NOTHING.