Mexico high court allows state anti-abortion amendment

[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Mexico [official website, in Spanish] on Wednesday upheld a state right-to-life constitutional amendment that says life begins at conception. The amendment effectively bans abortions [AP report] in Mexico’s northern Baja California state. Seven of 11 justices on the court, who argued that the issue was a federal and not state issue, voted to overturn the amendment, but failed to meet the requisite eight votes to overturn the law on constitutional grounds. Sixteen Mexican states have…