History flip-flops: Is Mxico the new option for Arizonans who need abortions?

[Judi Lynn]

by Beatriz Limón
October 10, 2022



Demonstrators protest in Mexicali for the decriminalization of abortion in Baja California. Manifestantes protestan en Mexicali por la despenalizacion del aborto. Logrando que en Baja California sea posible y seguro el aborto antes de las primeras 12 semanas de gestacion. Credit: Sergio Caro


Perla Martínez is used to checking Instagram, not for viral videos or photos of landscapes and murals, but for private messages from pregnant women who need help in Peru, Ecuador and other Latin American countries.

Women who live under governments with near-total bans on abortions. Women who need medicines or options to leave their country behind and travel safely to states in México where they can choose to end their pregnancy.

Martínez is a guide with Las Borders, a feminist collective she co-founded in Mexicali. The group helps people who are pregnant and who, due to health, life, rape or other reasons of their own choosing, decide not to give birth. The guides call themselves “companions,” and offer help online for abortions at home and with access to abortion medicines.

But checking social media and seeing messages with pleas from women in Arizona and Texas? That seemed strange.

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https://azluminaria.org/2022/10/10/history-flip-flops-is-mexico-the-new-option-for-arizonans-who-need-abortions/

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1. Mexico could become the new Tourist Abortion Mecca.

I've heard of Americans going there for simple surgeries and dental procedures.