In Mexico, lawmakers in the southern state of Oaxaca approved a bill Wednesday decriminalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Oaxaca becomes just the second region of Mexico — after Mexico City — to permit abortions. This is pro-choice activist Pilar Muriedas.

Pilar Muriedas: “The victory is not only for Oaxaca — the law, yes — but it means this gives hope to the other states where women who decide to have an abortion legally are punished.”

This comes just days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent lawmakers a bill that would grant amnesty to women serving prison terms for abortion.