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Originally Posted by for the record I just heard that America is the only country which allows abortions up to the third trimester, the only country where the supreme court actually upholds laws of abortion as "rights" of women... where as in every other country, the govt. places laws on it being illegal to permit abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy or so. And our country is the only one all up in arms about abortions. This all true? |
As puritanical as most Europeans think the US is we actually have amongst the world's most liberal laws concerning abortion.
Our country doesn't just allow abortion up to the third trimester... we allow it up to and during the third.
Every partial birth abortion ban put on the books has been struck as violating Justice O'Connor's iimpenatrable "undue burden" test.
O'Connor was a great many things... a Justice who left a legacy of lasting, thoughtful and clear jurisprudence she will never be confused with having been.