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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember back in the day when the US was progressive and Canada was the restrictive country.  Now it is the opposite.

Up here we have had NO abortion law at all for 30 years and the sky hasn't fallen.  It's considered a medical procedure, not your neighbor's business.  Our parliament couldn't agree on a law so just gave up.

We don't have a pile of late term abortions for convenience or whatever the scare stories are.  Doctors here would only terminate later for non viability or the mother's health by that stage.

Maybe you need to try NO LAW and see how it works just fine.[/quote]

That won't work in the US.  In Canada, you don't have a radical movement taking over one of your national parties and forcing the issue.  In this case, the MAGA element of the GOP has decided that with the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade (essentially sending us back to "NO LAW") that it is the time to double-down and create and enforce laws that make it illegal for women to make their own medical decisions for their own personal health.  They have become so draconian that not only do they ban women from making those medical decisions, they are also prosecuting medical practitioners that make such decisions.  It has become dangerous for doctors to decide that there is a medical reason for an abortion that would protect the life, health or fertility of the mother or to decide that a child with a horrific birth defect would suffer greatly from coming to term and being born and forcing such situations to birth.  Doctors are now in danger of medical malpractice, legal lawsuits, and loss of license to practice should they express their medical opinion.  Many women are told that the medical recommendation is one thing, but that legally they are not allowed to actually take that medical action because it has not met the overstrict state guidelines for when such actions can take place, even though medically, it is recommended.

The Canadian situation is what we had for nearly 50 years under Roe v Wade, but once the SCOTUS overturned that, it reverted American obstetrics to the 1920s where women were dying in childbirth because of a lack of medical knowledge.  Now we have medical knowledge dictated by lawyers who have never seen the inside of a hospital since they were born.[/quote]

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