TIME00084

TIME00084
Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico
Yes
Critical event
Neutral/neither
Litigation
07-1999
Mexico: Paulina Case – Paulina del Carmen Ramírez Jacinto, a 13-year-old from Mexicali, Baja California, was denied a legal abortion for a pregnancy resulting from rape. In 2002, the Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida and the Grupo Feminista Alaíde Foppa presented her case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In 2005, an amicable settlement was reached with the government of Baja California.