Article 199 Quintus Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE SEVEN. Crimes Against Health · Chapter III. Crimes against Reproductive Rights
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Commits the crime of provoked sterility whoever, without the consent of a person, practices on them surgical, chemical or procedures of any other nature to make them sterile.
On the person responsible for provoked sterility, four to seven years of imprisonment and up to seventy days fine shall be imposed, as well as the total payment of the reparation of the damages and losses caused, which may include the corresponding surgical procedure to reverse the sterility.
In addition to the penalties indicated in the preceding paragraph, the suspension of employment or profession shall be imposed on the responsible person for a term equal to that of the imprisonment penalty imposed, up to definitive disqualification, as long as by virtue of its exercise a damage for the victim has resulted; or else, in the case that the responsible person is a public official, they shall be deprived of the public employment, office or commission that they have been performing, as long as by virtue of its exercise they have committed said typical conduct.
Article 199 Sextus. The crimes provided in this chapter shall be prosecutable ex officio, with the exception of those that are indicated by complaint of the offended party.