The right to life and the right to terminate a pregnancy - Ricardo Adrián Roldán González - Bog

Women have the right to life; to health and medical care; to non-discrimination; to personal safety; to liberty; to privacy; to not be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; to decide the number of children she wants to have and the interval between births; among others. Thus, the right to terminate her pregnancy falls exclusively within her private sphere; however, this right, like all others, is not absolute, but must be evaluated in terms of its interaction with the rights of third parties, such as the possible right to life of the future child to be born. Therefore, an important exercise is to delimit the boundary between a termination of pregnancy and the protection that the right must exercise because of the potential for life. In the United Mexican States, Mexico City is the only entity that allows the legal termination of pregnancy for any reason up to the 12th week of gestation. But is this correct, should this period be reduced, or perhaps it can be extended?