Adoption Ban Lifted By Mexican Supreme Court

A landmark decision came from Mexico’s Supreme Court on Tuesday when it issued a 9-1 ruling that a Campeche state law barring same-sex couples from adopting is unconstitutional. Children’s rights were cited by the court as the basis for its decision. “I see no problem for a child to be adopted in a society of co-existence, which has precisely this purpose”, said presiding Judge Luis Maria Aguila in the ruling, “Are we going to prefer to have children in the street, which according to statistics exceed 100,000? We attend, of course, and perhaps with the same intensity or more, to the interests of the child.”

This decision comes on the heels of a recent ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court which stated that bans on same-sex are unconstitutional. Currently, same-sex marriages are legal in Mexico City as well as the states Chihuahua, Coahuila, Guerrero, and Quintana Roo.