CNN’s week of abortion promotion continued on Thursday’s CNN This Morning as correspondent Rosa Flores joined the show to suggest that Wednesday’s ruling by the Mexican Supreme Court decriminalizing abortion now means that country is more of a “beacon of human rights and women’s rights” than the United States.
Host Poppy Harlow asked Flores, who was reporting from Houston, Texas, “What's also really interesting is just south of the border, what Mexico's supreme court decided yesterday, just decriminalizing abortion. And what they said is that to do so basically violates the human rights of women in the country. Saying to block that would be unconstitutional. You've covered this issue extensively in Texas. I wonder what reaction you're getting.”
Flores also hyped the allegedly “extremely interesting” story, “There is this U.S. angle because of this post-Dobbs world that we live in now. And I can tell you, after Dobbs, I remember talking to a clinic in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and them telling me that their patients were actually going to cross to Mexico to get abortions.”
In response to the ruling in Mexico, Flores reported that, “I've been texting with the executive director of the Women's March, and what she points out is actually fascinating because it speaks to the bigger, broader picture.”
Flores endorsed this view, “The fact that Mexico and other Latin American countries have been expanding and progressing their reproductive rights and - and the reproductive rights of women and the rights of women, and that the U.S. is regressing, which is really fascinating based on where we are now.”
Continuing with the theme that Mexico has surpassed the United States, Flores declared, “Now, women in Mexico, I have to point out, have been looking at the United States as a beacon of human rights and women's rights. And when you look at where Mexico is right now, and you look at this decision by their supreme court saying that a ban on abortion is unconstitutional because, quote, Poppy, ‘it is contrary to the right of human dignity.’”
Flores concluded by noting, “The two frontrunners for Mexico's presidential election, they're both women. So, the likelihood that Mexico will have a woman president is really high.”
Perhaps that future president should first focus on cleaning up Mexico’s corruption and internal security problems that affect the border with the United States before spiking the football that they managed to elect a female president or claiming the right to kill babies puts Mexico above the United States on human rights issues.
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Here is a transcript for the September 7 show:
CNN This Morning
9/7/2023
6:38 AM ET
POPPY HARLOW: What's also really interesting is just south of the border, what Mexico's supreme court decided yesterday, just decriminalizing abortion. And what they said is that to do so basically violates the human rights of women in the country. Saying to block that would be unconstitutional. You've covered this issue extensively in Texas. I wonder what reaction you're getting.
ROSA FLORES: You know, this is extremely interesting, Poppy, because there is this Texas angle.
HARLOW: Yes.
FLORES: There is this U.S. angle because of this post-Dobbs world that we live in now. And I can tell you, after Dobbs, I remember talking to a clinic in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and them telling me that their patients were actually going to cross to Mexico to get abortions.
Now, historically and Poppy, you and I have talked about this before, historically women in Texas have crossed the border for other types of medical treatment and medication.
HARLOW: Right.
FLORES: Well, this decision in Mexico, this could mean that more women could do that at this point in time. Now, I've been texting with the executive director of the Women's March, and what she points out is actually fascinating because it speaks to the bigger, broader picture. The fact that Mexico and other Latin American countries have been expanding and progressing their reproductive rights and - and the reproductive rights of women and the rights of women, and that the U.S. is regressing, which is really fascinating based on where we are now.
Now, women in Mexico, I have to point out, have been looking at the United States as a beacon of human rights and women's rights. And when you look at where Mexico is right now, and you look at this decision by their supreme court saying that a ban on abortion is unconstitutional because, quote, Poppy, “it is contrary to the right of human dignity.”
And I have to leave you with this. The two frontrunners for Mexico's presidential election, they're both women. So, the likelihood that Mexico will have a woman president is really high. Poppy.
HARLOW: Yeah, it's all really fascinating. Rosa, thank you for the excellent reporting.
