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Notmy Realname's avatar

>Near-total abortion bans are rare

>On the other hand, several states have banned abortion from conception, with only exceptions for >the life of the woman (no exceptions for rape, incest, or lethal fetal abnormalities): Alabama, >Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. (For Texas, the law is currently >held up in court.)

>These laws are more restrictive than almost anywhere else in the rich world.

I think a potential caveat to this is that these laws are new/newly in effect after Dobbs and have not been active in quite a while. In comparison the other countries you mentioned (Germany, Canada etc.) have similar criminalization but an ocean of precedent, exceptions, special cases etc. walking back the overall ruling. I expect that given time, if Dobbs and the "total ban" laws stick, the total ban states will erode their own blanket bans with exceptions of their own

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Cydex's avatar

Thanks for the excellent summary. The unity of language would have you think that the US is much more unified, but seen through the abortion lens it seems to be as diverse as the EU.

Also I chuckled at « de-jour » for « de-jure » (like you ordered the abortion du jour)

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