Following the recent visit of a UN mission to examine the atrocious human rights situation for women in Guanajuato, the State Human Rights Attorney's office recommended to the state congress that penalities for illegal abortion. Currently, a woman can receive 25-35 years in prison for having an abortion, including a spontaneous abortion, in Guanajuato, and governor Juan Manuel Oliva, for his part, proposed reducing this to 3-8 years.
The state human rights attorney is quite a misnomer - its protagonism is minimal, and it notoriously continues to deny that any woman in Guanajuato is locked up for the aforementioned crime, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary - and has absolutely no independent authority from governor Oliva. Yet these recent declarations, which may at the very least be considered a step forward, serve to illustrate that international pressures still matters.
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