For the pro-life leader Marcial Padilla, director of the ConParticipation platform, what the SCJN did was “impose abortion on the national level by means of appeals.”
“In other words, a woman who is not yet pregnant can file an appeal and later have an abortion and the law doesn’t apply in that case,” he said.
For example, the Archdiocese of Mexico pointed to a case in the state of Aguascalientes, where “an appeal is scheduled to be discussed on June 28 — requested by an organization that claims to ‘protect women’ — against the penal code of said state in matters of abortion.”
“The first question that arises when hearing of the objective of the organization in question is: ‘Does the woman need to protect herself from her own child, to the point of having to take his life?’ It seems that this is the extreme situation to which they want to lead many women with discourse full of sophistry, lies, and false rights, dehumanizing life at its beginning,” the editorial pointed out.
The archdiocese then noted that “the SCJN has said that the life of the unborn child must be protected in gradations; this makes us raise other questions: Why is a human life protected in gradations and not absolutely?”
“What are the scientific, philosophical, legal, or human rights criteria that support that protecting a life in gradations can be called ‘justice’?” the editorial questioned.