Along the same lines, Diana Gamboa Aguirre, who holds a master’s degree in constitutional law, told ACI Prensa that the First Chamber of the SCJN has ruled that “any public health institution is obliged to perform an abortion if it is GIRE that requests it.”
“The court lacks the faculty to establish public policies, and our constitutional order and international conventions [ratified by Mexico] recognize the right to conscientious objection, so health personnel cannot be forced to end the life of any unborn child against their will and conscience,” Gamboa noted.
GIRE and a ‘strategic litigation’
The Mexican jurist points out that in this case “it’s important to be clear that we are dealing with strategic litigation,” a type of legal action taken seeking to bring about broad social or political change, which can even lead to…
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