Legal Guerilla: Jurisdiction, Time, and Abortion Access in Mexico City

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Abstract This article traces the emergence of a new politics jurisdiction in legal abortion debates Mexico. It analyzes how jurisdictional claims work as kind lawfare from “above” and “below” examining: 1) Mexican Supreme Court invoked technicalities to settle constitutional conflict over decriminalization Mexico City, 2) feminist litigator reappropriated court's formal principles legality toward their own ends what they call “legal guerilla.” Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork author explores competing jurisdictions create ambiguous spaces temporalities inclusion exclusion clinical care. In closing, she argues that activists who access people seek enact forms guerilla” move through these overlapping contradictory legalities.

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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Direito Gv

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2317-6172', '1808-2432']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-6172202139