Mexico City Policy Current Event

- In New York Times of February 27, 2016, similar to ones around country, the 2013Texas’ law was written by anti-abortion activists with only one purpose of shutting down clinics since its two main requirements have nothing to do with protecting women’s health. First, admitting privileges are often hard for doctors to get for bureaucratic reasons. Second, ambulatory surgical center standards are prohibitively expensive to meet and medically unnecessary due to the fact that abortion is one of the safest of all medical procedures, with a complication rate less than one-tenth of 1%. (The Editorial Board,

If a health clinic providing basic services to the world’s most vulnerable people is withheld the large amount of foreign assistance that currently comes from the United States government, all diseases will flourish, including epidemics such as Zika and Ebola (Barry-Jester, 2016). We contribute to more unstable political environments (Crimm, 2007, p.615) and more refugees that we increasingly refuse to help when we take away aid that would countries meet the needs of their citizens.

In the Judicial Branch, Supreme Court’s decision in the 1972 case of Roe v. Wade is still an important decision, Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole says that the clinics are going to be forced to be shut down under a law from the United States Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court found that criminal abortion laws, like the ones involved here, go against the Due Process Clause that are found in the fourteenth Amendment. The 14th Amendment protects citizens against state action the right to one’s privacy. There will not be any clinics at all in the 500 miles between San Antonio and the New Mexico border. The new requirement that also applies to clinics that only offer medication abortion which means the abortion after care may not be thorough and

The United States Federal Government has different views about abortion. These “different” views directly affect the women of America. The President produces an Executive Order. Congress puts a “rider” in place and the Courts begin legal abortion in 1973. Executive Order Number 13535 concerning the Affordable Care Act was ordered by President Obama in 2014. This Act mandated health care for all Americans and is sometimes called Obama Care. This executive order was to make clear that the government would not allow us of federal funds for abortion services. The only exception was in case of incest, rape, or the health of the mother. The order also mentions the Hyde Amendment as one of its foundations policies that restricts what the government

In Texas, a large cultural controversy has resurfaced. State lawmakers want to introduce a new set of guidelines which would essentially limit the availability of abortions to Texan women. This debate is very clearly divided into two opposing sides: pro-life and pro-choice. The pro-life side wants to pass this law, which says that clinics must be held to hospital grade standards and doctors must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion takes place. According to the pro-choice side and abortion clinicians themselves, “the regulations [are] expensive, unnecessary and intended to put many [offices] out of business” (nytimes). This case has made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, meaning that

One of the many women’s services that Planned Parenthood implements into their organization is safe, medically supervised, legal abortions. Most of the individuals who are not in favor of funding Planned Parenthood are solely against it because of the abortion services that this organization provides. Without safe and legal abortions, the increase of unsafe abortions would increase and some people may take drastic measures (Baptiste). In developing countries and counties where abortion is not legal there are many safe abortions performed that could be avoided if proper care was allowed (Baptiste). In this article Baptiste says, ”In El Salvador, a 1998 law went into effect that made abortion illegal with no exceptions—including rape, life of the mother, or incest. Women who are found guilty of having an abortion face two to eight year in prison.” This could promote unhealthy solutions to terminate an unwanted

The pope is coming to visit Mexico for a week. Many Mexicans hope that his visit will help with the corruption and violence that Mexico is currently battling. This is the first time any pope has been invited to the national palace, which is odd because Mexico has the second largest population of Catholics in the world. Apparently, even priests have been targets of violence from vicious gangs and drug cartels. The priests now have to watch what they say in their sermons for fear of retaliation. The article touches on a resort that used to be a hotspot for vacationers and is now one of the most violent cities in the world. A nearby community is also one of the poorest in Mexico now because of this violence.

People like to sugarcoat things to forget what they are truly doing. They do this in order to make themselves feel better, to give themselves a better cause. For example, most pro-choicers do not prefer to use the word kill, rather, they use the word abort. They also try to claim that the fetus is nothing more than tissue. But, when does tissue become human? Can anyone truly say when something becomes a human? The phrase that a fetus is nothing more than tissue is not only incorrect, as it can not be backed up, but is just an excuse to justify abortion. Abortion is the start of eugenics, which is the idea that only the fit should be born. In fact, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, one of the largest abortion providers in the world, was a member of a Eugenists Council. She admired Hitler for killing millions of Jews, but realized that the method Hitler chose was wrong, as he failed. So she set up abortion clinics in neighborhoods with a high population of Jews, Slavs, blacks, and Hispanics. Abortion creates the mentality that anyone who is not “fit” needs to be aborted. Sanger created the illusion of empowerment of women while secretly “weeding out the undesirables of society”. Abortion should be banned as it is a violation of human rights, does not empower women, and infringes on religious rights as well as the rights of the fetus being aborted. Additionally, rape and incest should not allow for abortion, as those conceived through

The global gag rule "denies U.S. funds to nongovernmental organizations if they provide abortion services, counseling referrals, or lobbying to change abortion laws, even if they are using the moneys other than that from the United States for these activities" (Ruether). By enacting the global gag rule, the Bush administration forced these foreign organizations to follow his Christian fundamentalist agenda. The non-governmental organizations would not risk their funds to perform life saving abortions or provide contraception that would decrease the need for abortions. Because he enacted this law, women in these underprivileged nations would not have the right to have any decision regarding their reproductive health. Ultimately they would turn to illegal ways to get abortions or contraceptives that could potentially damage their health. The global gag rule ironically implies that the Christian fundamentalist idea of pro-life is more important than the lives of potential

Before NAFTA, Canada and the United States were produced economies with solid customs of liberal political and financial arrangements, while Mexico had not one or the other. After World War II, Mexico occupied with protectionism and import-substitution, instead of fare headed development. Mexico 's approaches were proposed to make freedom from American authority and energize local industrialization through state and corporatist strategies. These strategies reverse discharges and by the 1980s Mexico had triple-digit expansion, retrogressive businesses, and broad universal obligation. In this environment, Mexico started to change in 1985 and tear down its protectionist approaches. Be that as it may, Mexican wages were still only one seventh of those in the United States only preceding NAFTA. This made noteworthy resistance to collaboration with Mexico in the United Sates, where American work and union gatherings dreaded huge employment misfortunes to Mexico. Ross Perot broadly reworded this dread among Americans with his "monster sucking sound" representation for employments going south of the US outskirt to Mexico. As far as it matters for Mexico, opening its economy as needed by NAFTA undermined political and financial pioneers who had controlled and appropriated state incomes without outer impedance. Much more diminutive contrasts existed between the US and Canadian monetary and political framework, which were both liberal vote based

This policy, when it is in action, prevents foreign NGOs from earning funding to help women who are in need of family planning or abortion information, contraceptives, etc. This policy specifically, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, “has required foreign NGOs to certify that they will not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” with non-U.S. funds as a condition for receiving U.S. global family planning assistance and, as of Jan. 23, 2017, any other U.S. global health assistance, including U.S. global HIV (under PEPFAR), maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition, and other program areas.” (“The Mexico City Policy: An Explainer,” 2017). Reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy goes far beyond just having access to family planning and abortion, this will impact maternal and child health, including water and sanitation, nutrition, HIV and global health

Like an enormous living museum, Mexico City provides an extraordinary showplace for the thousands of years of human cultural achievement that Mexico has attained. It ranks as one of the world's great capitals and is a must for anyone craving to understand Mexico's complex past, its fast-paced present, and its ever challenging future. The size and grandeur of the city are staggering. It is not only the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Western Hemisphere, but, by some accounts, has also become the largest city in the world. Before we look at present day Mexico City, let us look into it deep and storied past.

The implications of Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the “Gag Rule” on birth control are deadly for men, women, and children, and pose dangerous setbacks for the ongoing struggle against HIV/AIDS. Such legislation from a nation with considerable influence over health policy aggravates a global trend of limited abortion access; only 30% of the nations in the world today grant women abortions for any reason. Safe abortion practices are often underutilized due to varying case restrictions, leading many women to continue pursuing illegal, unsanitary, and dangerous alternative abortions. These practices are of grave concern to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which UNAIDS seeks to eradicate by the year 2030. Unsafe abortions are statistically prevalent in women who suffer from HIV/AIDS, as they pose a high risk for transmission of the disease to their children and complications post-birth. Suffering from medical discrimination that prevents some pregnant women from receiving safe abortions even in legally permissible conditions, HIV-positive women have the lowest quality of access to safe prenatal and abortion services, and Trump’s “Gag Rule” will only make access more difficult for these populations

This is a very one sided article, that only talks about the negative aspects of closing abortion clinics, however, unlike many other articles, it provides solid arguments in favor of its opinion. Interestingly, this has been a long debate, with government deciding in 1973 to make it illegal to fund abortions within the bounds of the family planning program. However, what’s important to realize is the so called global gag rule, which states that money will be taken from other programs, like HIV prevention and contraception if organization even advises anything regarding abortion. This is making abortion a taboo, with women unable to talk about it and as a result, they are left with unsafe

The National Abortion Federation is an organization that supports all of the above views and more and publishes numerous resources covering a wide range of subjects related to abortion for health care providers, medical educators, patients and the public. In face of myths and misinformation about abortion, NAF's resources provide medically accurate information that enables women and the public to make informed choices. Their policy focus on the importance of women having access to safe and legal abortion options. They believe that in recent years Congress has made this impossible by banning safe abortion procedures, voting to make a fetus a person for the purposes of federal criminal law, and restricted access to abortion for federal employees, military dependents, Native Americans, and low-income women. They quote the fact that during his eight year stay in office President Bush has nominated over 200 anti-choice judges to the federal bench, has made a host of other anti-choice appointments to non-judicial posts, and has signed anti-choice legislation passed by Congress, and has used his administration to further policies limiting access to safe and legal abortions. Their view is that abortion providers offer quality care to woman in the face of hostility, harassment, and threats of violence. They advise that reproductive health care providers undertake comprehensive security measures to keep staff and