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Click here to see the summaryJudges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling. The court’s sweeping decision Wednesday comes amid a trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on abortion, even as access has been limited in parts of the United States. Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago. The Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials as GIRE, said the court decided that the portion of the federal penal code that criminalized abortion no longer has any effect. “No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker will be able to be punished for abortion,” the non-governmental organization said in a statement. The court ordered that the crime of abortion be removed from the federal penal code. — Saved 38% of original text.