Mexico's supreme court has decriminalised abortion nationwide.
The judgement comes two years after the court ruled in favour of a challenge to the existing law in the northern state of Coahuila. It had ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies were unconstitutional.
Mexico's states and the federal government had since been slow to repeal penal codes.
The new ruling legalises abortion across all 32 states.
The supreme court said the denial of the possibility of a termination violated the human rights of women.
Over 80 per cent of Mexico's 130 million people are Catholic, making the magistrates' decision historic as religious and conservative groups have condemned the ruling citing beliefs in the rights of unborn fetuses.
Mexico City was the first of the country's states to decriminalize abortion in 2007 and a dozen others followed suit.
Although the United States, Russia and some European countries try to limit reproductive rights, the opposite is observed in Latin America.
Latin America has seen a trend towards loosening abortion restrictions that has been referred to as a "green wave" (because of the color of the bandanas worn by human rights defenders).
Elective abortion is legal in Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay and Argentina though the frontrunner in the campaign for Argentina's presidential election in October, Javier Milei, wants to ban the procedure.
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