Mexico's federal political system makes it very difficult, almost impossible, for this country to experience a situation like Argentina, where abortion has been legislated with the same criteria for the entire nation.
On the contrary, Mexican women do not have the same rights depending on the State in which they reside.
Only two, Mexico City and Oaxaca, have free abortion services until the 12th week of gestation, that is, a law of terms where no reason should be indicated for requesting the intervention.
The capital approved it in 2007 and Oaxaca, last year.
Mexico City already has statistics to interpret the wishes of women in this regard, since since that year there have been around 210,000 abortions in its medical centers.
And one thing is clear: from neighboring states they travel to the capital to undergo this intervention and also dozens of women, raped or not, travel from Veracruz, for example, to interrupt their pregnancy in Mexico City.
Green scarves continue to flow in Mexico.
In all the penal codes of the Mexican states, abortion is tolerated in case of rape.
And also, each entity adds other assumptions, such as danger to the health or life of the mother, fetal malformations, and so on.
But in practice, aborting in many areas of Mexico is not easy and some women are forced in medical centers to confess that they caused an abortion and are even denounced, then revictimized.
Mexico leads the OECD in adolescent pregnancies with 77 births for every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 19.
The Government has a National Strategy for the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy in place, which seeks to reduce the 340,000 annual births among children under 19 years of age.
The Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, has stated on several occasions that the pregnancies of girls should be considered rape.
In the absence of national regulation, Mexico is patching up a right that is disparate in its territory.
For this, they have the National General Victims Law, which guarantees the interruption of pregnancy when it has been the result of a crime, and the woman's word is enough to prove it.
In some states, they are forced to file a rape complaint, for example a thorny terrain in Mexico, where complaints are not straightforward.
The Official Mexican Standard, popularly known as NOM 046, is also used. And the General Health Law, also national, which provides security against abortions because it guarantees its provision if the mother's health is at risk, both physical and emotional and social, according to WHO.
The rulings of the Supreme Court have endorsed the prevalence of these norms over state restrictions, which has been providing jurisprudence in favor of the right to abortion.
In 2007, when the capital approved its deadline law, many states reacted against it and included safeguards in their Constitutions in which life was guaranteed from the moment of conception.
"There is no reason to understand this as a prohibition of abortion, which in the criminal codes is still allowed," says Rebeca Ramos, director of the Mexican organization Gire, which defends the right to free interruption of pregnancy.
But the truth is that many interpreted it that way and fear, or at least rejection, spread among medical personnel, who in some states declared themselves to be conscientious objectors without fissures, as in Aguascalientes.
This also led to a court ruling that required the provision of this service beyond the will of the doctors.
But for that to happen, thousands of women, those who can, are forced to travel to the capital.
Conscientious objection is regulated in Mexico and is a right that only assists those who perform abortion, orderlies, for example, cannot avail themselves of it.
“Many doctors require that an authority give them permission before performing an abortion.
At Gire we have accompanied several cases where we have verified how the health services refuse to interrupt the pregnancy even though it is permitted by law, ”says Ramos.
In the whole process, other elements of a religious nature also interfere, transferring pregnant young women to centers where they will not finally be allowed to interrupt their pregnancy.
“Access is regulated in Mexico, but there are still many pending, especially with health services.
In Oaxaca, for example, which has already approved a deadline law, it has not yet begun to be applied, ”complains Ramos.
Between 4.7% and 13.2% of maternal mortality in the world can be attributed to unsafe abortions, a common practice in Latin America.
Mexico is no exception.
Unsafe abortions are those that occur without the minimum sanitary guarantees, which endangers the life of the pregnant woman.
In Africa and Latin America, three out of four interruptions to pregnancy are unsafe and millions of women around the world come to hospitals bled to death, where a complaint can add to their misfortune, which in many countries ends in tremendous prison terms.
Today, when Argentine feminists have circulated old photos from 1984, with democracy barely recovered in that country, it should be remembered that in Mexico, the debate on the decriminalization of abortion began in 1936. And 84 years later, it cannot be said that the Republic has laws that guarantee the same rights for all women.
Differences are still found based on where they live, their culture and their economy.
There are clandestine abortions, but not all of them are unsafe, who has money overcomes the restrictions with an appropriate sanitary equipment.
Those that don't put their lives in danger.