Overview
- The Supreme Court’s plenary, which voted Tuesday 6–2, issued Declaratoria General 13/2025 after a missed 90‑day deadline from an earlier amparo and struck IMSS Rule 42(II) for minors, requiring coverage of eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, cochlear implants, prostheses and orthoses.
- The ruling applies only to children and adolescents, a rare limit that the authoring justice tied to the original case on a child’s cochlear implant and to the constitutional principle that children’s interests carry greater weight.
- Ministers Lenia Batres and Irving Espinosa dissented, with Espinosa questioning the legal form of the remedy and Batres arguing the court did not show IMSS had the money or infrastructure to comply.
- Batres later posted a video saying the media misread her vote and then removed it from her social accounts, reflecting the public heat over a decision that excludes adults who may have to seek case‑by‑case court relief.
- Separately, the Court granted a suspension to two Morelos clinicians that blocks enforcement of local abortion penalties against them, calling the rules self‑executing and noting a chilling effect on care while the case is decided.