- Four states reformed their constitution to criminalize abortion
For Gladis Torres Ruiz
Mexico City, 31 Mar 11 (CIMAC) .- In Mexico number of teenage pregnancy is concentrated in six states of the northern border Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas ; of these four already legislated against the right to decide for women and criminalize abortion.
In the report "An overview of Children in Mexico Along its northern border," he indicates that women living in states the northern border are those that have higher rates of teenage pregnancy. 7 percent of girls between 15 and 17 years of age in that region has given birth to a live baby, compared with 6 percent nationally.
The document produced by the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico, which analyzes the situation of more than two million children living on the border between Mexico and the United States adds that this trend is much broader in Coahuila, reaching a maximum of 19 percent.
in this area points out that 28 percent of women aged between 18 and 19 who live in border towns, has given birth to a baby, compared with 22 percent nationally.
be recalled that in Mexico, since October 2008, the temporary alliance of the National Action Party (PAN) and Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), supported by MPs and legislators from other parties, has made constitutional reform in 17 of the 31 states, these institutions currently protect life from the moment of conception-fertilization and criminalize abortion.
Among them are: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas, the northern border institutions in which penalizes women access or have an abortion.
Network The document states that teenage pregnancy is particularly serious in the town of Saric, Sonora, where two of every ten girls are mothers. Although the general trend is to decrease the percentage of adolescents aged 15 to 17 years with at least one live birth, the percentage increased by more than thirty percent of the border municipalities in the period 2000-2005.
According to the First Report on Implementation of National Population Program 2008-2012, National Population Council (CONAPO) are the adolescents of low socioeconomic status, and a half, being the most vulnerable to unplanned pregnancies present and sexually transmitted infections.
This contrasts with the situation of adolescents in the northern border since the document "An overview of Children in Mexico along its northern border," also states that children of the border live in better conditions than the rest of the country.
"While in Mexico, four in ten children do not have water inside your home, in the border towns this percentage represents two out of ten."
Several studies show that teenage pregnancy is considered a problem from different perspectives, since it implies greater risk of maternal mortality, lower educational opportunities and, sometimes, the total abandonment of the studies and strengthening the cycle of poverty and increased risk of infant mortality.
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