Adultery: Mexico raises its voice for women…
Mexico has just taken a historic step in favor of gender equality…
The 69 senators present voted – minus one abstention – to decriminalize adultery. This law was waitlisted to be repealed since April of 2008.
On March 24th 2011, the Mexican senators expressed their wish to repeal, via reform of the penal code, a misogynistic law infringing upon women’s dignity – this chauvinistic law was indeed mostly applied as a way to punish unfaithful women.
Associations for gender equality and the defense of women hold this to be “the dismissal of an offence historically constructed as a means to entrench the ownership of women by men”. This offence will therefore no longer exist in Mexico.
This action is thus the removal of a clause in the penal code considered to be no longer in phase with modern society.
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Until now in Mexico, adultery constituted an offence punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment and the withdrawal of one’s civil rights for 6 years.
On March 24th 2011, the Mexican senators expressed their wish to repeal, via reform of the penal code, a misogynistic law infringing upon women’s dignity – this chauvinistic law was indeed mostly applied as a way to punish unfaithful women.
Associations for gender equality and the defense of women hold this to be “the dismissal of an offence historically constructed as a means to entrench the ownership of women by men”. This offence will therefore no longer exist in Mexico.
This action is thus the removal of a clause in the penal code considered to be no longer in phase with modern society.
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