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Last updated: April 30, 2026.

The struggle for the decriminalization of abortion has made significant progress across Latin America; however, obstacles that prevent free, safe, and unrestricted access to this service persist. In Mexico, accompaniment networks have played a crucial role in contexts where state and public institutional support is lacking. These networks have helped ensure that women and people with the capacity to gestate are able to access abortion under optimal conditions, both in federal entities where abortion has already been decriminalized and in those where it remains criminalized under penal codes.

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As of April 2026, abortion has been decriminalized in the following federal entities: Mexico City (2007), Oaxaca (2019), Hidalgo (2021), Veracruz (2021), Coahuila (2021), Baja California (2021), Colima (2021), Sinaloa (2022), Guerrero (2022), Baja California Sur (2022), Quintana Roo (2022), Puebla (2024), Jalisco (2024), Michoacán (2024), Chiapas (2024), San Luis Potosí (2024), Zacatecas (2024), State of Mexico (2024), Nayarit (2025), Chihuahua (2025), Campeche (2025), Yucatán (2025), Tabasco (2025), and Tlaxcala (2025).

In 2021, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN, the Court) ruled on Action of Unconstitutionality 148/2017 and invalidated Article 196 of the Criminal Code of Coahuila, which punished persons who had an abortion, as well as those who performed or assisted in the procedure. As a result, in Coahuila it is no longer possible to report, investigate, or convict anyone for voluntarily having an abortion or for helping another person to have one. Moreover, this ruling set a precedent whereby judges throughout the country may not issue judgements for the crime of abortion when it is carried out by the sole will of the woman or pregnant person receiving the procedure—during a brief period at the beginning of pregnancy.

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Following the Coahuila decision, on August 30, 2023, the SCJN ruled on Amparo in Review 79/2023, filed by GIRE, Morras Help Morras, and other local organizations and collectives against the criminalization of abortion in the Criminal Code of Aguascalientes. In this case, the First Chamber held that Morras Help Morras and GIRE had a legitimate interest in bringing the amparo lawsuit, as they demonstrated that their organizational purpose was the defense and promotion of reproductive rights.

The Court held that classifying abortion as a criminal offense was unconstitutional and granted the ruling general effects, meaning that its protection extended beyond the organizations that filed the amparo lawsuit and their members to the reproductive rights of all women and pregnant people in Aguascalientes. Therefore, the Court ordered the state Congress to repeal the provisions that had been declared unconstitutional. After the necessary legal amendments were made, abortion was decriminalized in the state up to 12.6 weeks of pregnancy in December 2023. However, in August 2024, in an unfortunate turn, the state Congress voted to reduce the decriminalization period to just six weeks, which, in practice, amounts to a disguised ban.

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In September 2023, the Green Wave once again swept through the city, as the First Chamber of the SCJN ruled on an amparo lawsuit filed by GIRE challenging the Congress of the Union and the Federal Executive for issuing a regulation that criminalized abortion. On September 6, 2023, the Court unanimously determined that the provisions that criminalized abortion were unconstitutional and ordered the Congress of the Union to strike the crime of abortion from the Federal Criminal Code. As a result of this ruling, no woman or pregnant person may be criminalized for having an abortion, and the same applies to health care personnel or any person who assists them. In addition, federal health institutions such as the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS, for its Spanish initials) and the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE, for its Spanish initials) are required to provide abortion services upon request.

Additionally, on January 23, 2025, the Official Gazette of the Federation published an agreement issued by ISSSTE’s Director General, which guarantees the implementation of the Legal Termination of Pregnancy (LTP) procedure. ISSSTE is Mexico’s third largest public health care service provider (after IMSS and IMSS-Bienestar, based on the number of people it serves) and, in accordance with this agreement, it must guarantee access to voluntary abortion to any rightful claimant who requests the service, regardless of the reasons for seeking an abortion, in accordance with the regulations of each federal entity.

Likewise, in March 2026, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) issued the Technical Guidelines for Legal Abortion, launched a WhatsApp chatbot (55 4595 0448) to provide information and support, and added a filter to its facility directory to help users locate health units that provide legal abortion services. These measures further institutionalize abortion as a healthcare service. Their significance lies in their potential reach: according to the 2023 National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), 26,021,535 women in Mexico are enrolled in the ordinary IMSS regime (61.3% of all women affiliated with a health service), of whom 13,082,384 are of reproductive age.

We have created this directory of allies and collectives so that, should you need to access an abortion, you can count on the accompaniment and tools necessary to do so. In every entity across the country, there are accompaniment networks and collectives ready to provide medical, emotional, psychological, legal, financial, and/or logistical support.

The collectives included in this directory are committed to the autonomy of all women and people with the capacity to gestate. They engage in ongoing training and work in accordance with the protocols established by the World Health Organization (WHO). Beyond advocating for the legalization of abortion, they put into practice a political commitment aimed at reclaiming decision-making power, autonomy, and freedom for women, trans men, and nonbinary, agender, and gender-fluid people. This stems from their understanding that the right to decide includes how, with whom, and where a person wishes to access safe and free-of charge abortion care.

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