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一 | TIJUANA, Mexico -- It’s Sunday night and Crystal P. Lira is not answering her messages. Inside the headquarters of Colectiva Bloodys y Projects, an organization that has supported reproductive rights near the U.S.-Mexico border since 2016, her only concern is for the woman she has provided with a safe space to get an abortion.Lira, who lives in Tijuana, in northern Mexico, is one among dozens of Mexican “acompañantes" — volunteers who support women wanting to terminate a pregnancy. Located all over the country, most acompañantes offer virtual guidance through an abortion protocol in which no clinics or prescriptions are needed.Developed by activists after decades of facing abortion bans and restrictions in most of Mexico’s 32 states, the protocol encourages women to trust self-managed medication abortions following guidelines established by the World Health Organization.“Accompaniment means that we facilitate information, medications and everything a woman needs to get a safe abortion at home,” Lira said. “But we also provide emotional support and support to fight stigma, religious and cultural barriers.”Mexico’s Supreme Court recently ruled that national laws prohibiting abortions are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights. The ruling, which extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access, happened a year after the court’s U.S. counterpart went in the opposite direction.The Mexican decision did not have the same immediate impact as Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing women’s access to abortion on a nationwide basis.Although the Mexican ruling orders the removal of abortion from the federal penal code and requires federal health institutions to offer the procedure to anyone who requests it, further state-by-state legal work will be needed to remove all penalties.“The court did not give a direct instruction to any local congress, but it sends a very clear signal of what congresses have to do,” said Sofia Aguiar, a lawyer at the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials GIRE.For now, 20 Mexican states still criminalize abortion.In Baja California, where Tijuana is located, abortion was decriminalized in 2021. By then, Lira had already gained five years’ experience as an acompañante.“Ahead of starting an abortion network, I questioned myself: How did I get to this point? Why did I live what I lived, and what could have been different?” she said.In 2012, Lira faced an unwanted pregnancy. “I didn’t know what to do, where to look for help,” she said.On the recommendation of a friend, and due to her hometown’s proximity to the U.S. border, Lira made an appointment at a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Diego. She traveled back home with pills and a debt of $600 that she paid for her abortion.Three years later, deeply conflicted by the inequality in abortion access, she became an activist and received training to become an acompañante.“The easiest part was learning the abortion protocol,” she said. “The toughest was acquiring a political perspective, understanding how abortions are based on rights and freedom.”Many reject her views in Mexico, a predominantly Catholic country.Soon after the court’s ruling in early September, former actor and right-wing activist Eduardo Verástegui announced he will seek the presidency on an anti-abortion platform. “Say ‘yes’ to life and ‘no’ to abortion,” he has said, echoed by his followers. Without mentioning him by name, the Catholic archbishop of Mexico City, Carlos Aguiar Retes, recently advocated voting for Verástegui in the 2024 election, and some Catholic, evangelical and anti-abortion groups have publicly supported him as well.“We think it’s good to have a character like him,” said Rodrigo Iván Cortés, director of the National Family Front, an anti-abortion group. “He’s explicit about defending life and family.”Abortion activists were not surprised by the conservative response to the court’s ruling. “Historically, every progressive movement is followed by a setback from groups that organize against it,” said Aguiar from GIRE. “We saw it in the United States.”Aguiar and her colleagues plan to keep advocating for reproductive rights. “We will continue working on issues like obstetric violence, maternal death and forced contraception,” Aguiar said.At Colectiva Bloodys y Projects, Lira has plans of her own.With a colleague who recently moved to San Diego, they hope to replicate some of their abortion strategies in California. “We want to migrate our perspectives,” Lira said. “To lead informative brigades and communicate that we can provide pills for those who can’t access abortion medication there.”It’s no coincidence that Lira’s views are influenced by migration. The surge of migrants approaching the U.S. border, traveling from Colombia through the Darién jungle and moving up through Central America into Mexico, could approach 500,000 this year.Venezuelans, Salvadorans, Haitians and Mexicans — internally displaced by violence — are among those who migrate by trains, buses and on foot. Along the way, thousands are victims of robbery, human trafficking and sexual abuse.“We’ve been seeing women who suffer a lot of violence on their way to the United States,” Lira said.Some migrants who wish to terminate their pregnancies contact them directly and others are channeled through shelters or midwives. “We have realized the need to support these women. … They experience violence, especially sexual, and need abortions,” said Minerva, another member of Colectiva Bloodys y Projects. For security reasons, she spoke on condition she be identified only by her first name.Access to medication and a private space to get a self-managed abortion are particularly difficult for migrants, who can spend several months in shelters on the border.“We want to accompany them,” Lira said. “But abortion access is just the tip of the iceberg. We expect to share key information for their physical and mental health.”Joining forces with a local organization focused on reproductive health, Lira and activist Monica Rosas will offer an informative workshop on fertility and the reproductive cycle by mid-October at a church-affiliated shelter where up to 1,700 migrants are currently waiting to enter the U.S.“We will create a space for self-knowledge as a tribe,” Rosas said.The program includes body literacy — naming parts of the anatomy free of taboos — and dances to celebrate the female body.“We would love for these women who are passing through, waiting for an opportunity to cross, to carry this information with them,” Lira said. “Our bodies are powerful and, if we know them, that can help us reach our own identity.”___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.。

打不过！确实打不过！昨晚的巴塞罗那决赛，鲁内用一场现象级的发挥击败了阿尔卡拉斯夺得冠军！尽管阿尔卡拉斯在第二盘受伤似乎让鲁内这次夺冠的含金量失去一些成色，但考虑到第一盘的表现，即便阿尔卡拉斯不受伤，恐怕也很难阻挡这样的鲁内！

作为曾经被看好的网坛“三小巨头”，鲁内在过去两年的状态一直都萎靡不振。说来也奇怪，鲁内本身的打法就非常全面，正反拍技术更是非常均衡，而且一出道就有着“小德约”的称号，然而却怎么也打不出来。不过，正所谓“浪子回头金不换”，鲁内终于在本周的巴塞罗那迎来了爆发，连胜拉莫斯、巴埃斯、鲁德、卡恰诺夫挺进决赛，并最终用一场非常出色的表现击败阿尔卡拉斯夺得冠军！

对于自己曾经的低迷，鲁内这周也有一段非常精彩的采访，他谈到了自己的来时路，也谈到了目前他对自我的理解和认知。

“在我至今为止的职业生涯中，确实犯过一些错误，比如频繁更换教练。

二 | 但现在，我更清楚地知道该如何集中注意力，我在球场上的位置，以及我的体能水平。之前我所做的所有改变都让我偏离了正轨。我曾经迷失过方向，但现在我终于找到了回归的路。

三 | 我现在知道要想达到巅峰，你必须做正确的事情，而不是退而求其次。”

而在谈到自己夺冠有什么秘诀时，鲁内坦言，这很大程度上要得益于去年奥运会德约科维奇夺冠对自己的启发。他坦言，“我会想，诺瓦克会怎么做去打败他呢？我在头脑中尝试回放了一下去年的奥运会男单决赛，然后我尝试也打出诺瓦克那样的风格。我要让他打出很多多回合球，我也很高兴在关键时刻我保持了冷静和勇气。”

而关于这一点，从全场比赛的技术统计中也可以看出一些门道：鲁内全场打出18个制胜球并伴随24个非受迫性失误，而阿尔卡拉斯则是16个制胜球，但伴随33个非受迫性失误！用更低的风险打出更加有侵略性的回球，正是鲁内击败阿尔卡拉斯夺冠的秘密。

此外，在本场比赛还有一份数据值得注意，那就是双方的网前得分率：鲁内16次上网拿下12分，而阿尔卡拉斯则15次上网仅拿到6分。因此，尽管我们说，尽可能地拖进多拍是鲁内今天的主要战术，但显然，他也考虑到了想击败阿尔卡拉斯，就不能单纯停留在底线与之缠斗，同样需要来到网前给阿尔卡拉斯带来更大的压力。

再来关注阿尔卡拉斯的伤病问题，在这场决赛中，12天出战10场比赛的阿尔卡拉斯，身体终于出现了问题，过度的消耗和疲惫让他在巴塞罗那赛决赛中感觉到右侧的内收肌部位出现了问题，并在第二盘初段曾申请医疗暂停。赛后，根据《马卡报》消息，阿尔卡拉斯将于周一，也就是今天下午做核磁共振检查，以确认伤势严重程度，届时将决定其是否能参加马德里大师赛。

对于自己本次出现的伤病，阿尔卡拉斯坦言，“第二盘开局打得很激烈，有很多高强度的多拍回合，当时有两个回合感觉右腿的内收肌有些酸痛。当你感觉不适的时候，脑中也会拉响警报，想要完全专注到比赛中就很困难了，你会担心自己的身体状况如何，想要继续坚持、保持比赛水准会变得很艰难。就目前的情况和感觉来看，我觉得自己要休息两天，当然即使不受伤我也要休战两天，我也会和医疗团队去沟通做检查，不过我相信这不会影响我参加马德里大师赛。