Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of decriminalizing abortion nationwide

Mexico's Supreme Court ruled in favor of decriminalizing abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.

The Supreme Court said it had "ruled that the penalization of abortion under the Federal Criminal Code is unconstitutional, since it violates the human rights of women and people with the capacity to gestate."

The earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court's ruling.