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Mexico: Rosario Robles Berlanga presented an initiative to expand the regime of exceptions for legal abortion, known as the Robles Law. The Legislative Assembly of the Federal District added three exceptions to the Penal Code and the Code of Penal Procedure: (1) when the fetus has congenital anomalies or severe genetic defects, (2) when not performing an abortion would endanger the pregnant woman’s health, and (3) when the pregnancy is the result of nonconsensual artificial insemination.