Every recovery room at Fundación ILE, an abortion clinic in Mexico City, is equipped with a small bed, blankets, sanitary pads and a turquoise journal. The journals are filled with letters written by women minutes after having had abortions. Some of them detail the reasons they chose to undergo the procedure. Others have messages of encouragement for the next women who will be in their position. Clinics like Fundación ILE have been legal in Mexico City for 16 years, after a groundbreaking 2007 decision decriminalized abortion in the capital state. Other Mexican states have individually followed suit. Then, in September, the country's Supreme Court voted to decriminalize the procedure nationwide, marking a contrast to growing abortion restrictions in many U.S. states after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But in a culturally conservative country where nearly 80% of the population identifies as Catholic and femicide is seen as a national emergency, Mexico’s Supreme Co...