forest-spirit said:
"like rest of the world" is a very broad statement as abortion laws differ a lot between different parts of the world: https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/global-abortion/ http://www.worldabortionlaws.com/map/ The far majority of western nations have relatively liberal abortion laws and while the period during which you can legally have an abortion differs between the countries most do not require any special circumstances as far as I've understood. |
I guess what im trying to say is that the majority of the rest of the world (looking at your first article), allows for abortion under special circumstance (the number of countries that are grey for "on request" are quite low, and yes these are mostly Western/European countries).
But even those highly liberal countries do require special circumstances.
South Africa is one of those countries marked as on request, but even in South Africa there are limitations in terms of time, which these Article do not cover.
Sweden is another i randomly chose from the list, that is also marked as "On request" but even in Sweden it is only allowed up until 18 weeks, after which a special reason is required (special reasons usually refers to sickness, rape, incest, danger to the mother).
I don't see any country treating abortion lightly, referring to a fetus as a parasite (which is rediculous) or completely disallowing abortion even under the majority of special circumstances. Where it seems like the USA is pushing in those two extreme opposites. However it might be a case that only the extremist views of the USA is the ones we hear about...
(we being the international community :) )
