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)
>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
Small relatively recent update- you mention New Hampshire as a state with no gestational limit, but as of January 2022, it's banned after 24 weeks (with exceptions for life of the mother and fatal fetal diagnoses)
> In most US states, there are now zero providers who provide (above board, not black market) elective abortions. You can find the latest here: https://www.abortionfinder.org/
I also think it would be great if you cross referenced this data with state/country maternal and infant mortality rates - that information is very readily accessible.
I don't know anything about abortion in Germany, but based on a comment (https://tildes.net/~news/1222/weekly_us_politics_news_and_updates_thread_week_of_july_25#comment-7ea1) I think it might not be right to say that abortion "is always illegal" in Germany. Note that in the translation, in one of the exceptions it says "A termination which is performed by a physician with the consent of the pregnant woman is not unlawful if [...]"
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)
>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
Small relatively recent update- you mention New Hampshire as a state with no gestational limit, but as of January 2022, it's banned after 24 weeks (with exceptions for life of the mother and fatal fetal diagnoses)
Planned parenthood seems to have the most complete picture of the current state of things: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-northern-new-england/campaigns/new-hampshire-abortion-law
Two quick notes:
> No provider in Vermont provides elective third trimester abortions. https://vtdigger.org/2019/02/15/vermonts-proposed-law-allow-abortions-right-moment-birth/ This is also true in other 'no restrictions' states. Would be great if you did a similar analysis you did for Italy on US no-restrictions states.
> In most US states, there are now zero providers who provide (above board, not black market) elective abortions. You can find the latest here: https://www.abortionfinder.org/
I also think it would be great if you cross referenced this data with state/country maternal and infant mortality rates - that information is very readily accessible.
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I don't know anything about abortion in Germany, but based on a comment (https://tildes.net/~news/1222/weekly_us_politics_news_and_updates_thread_week_of_july_25#comment-7ea1) I think it might not be right to say that abortion "is always illegal" in Germany. Note that in the translation, in one of the exceptions it says "A termination which is performed by a physician with the consent of the pregnant woman is not unlawful if [...]"