Country-by-country Abortion Laws

that abortion was banned in Mexico.

It’s not banned in Mexico, they just passed legal abortion in Mexico city this year. In most of LATAM, abortions are a crime, but the abortion rate is far higher than in Western Europe or the US. Colombia – where abortion is illegal even if a woman’s life is in danger – averages more than one abortion per woman over all of her fertile years. I don’t think the map accurately represents abortion in all the regions.

This is really interesting….the developed western world and the former (or currently) communist world permit abortions in any case. I suppose once a country becomes affluent and/or human beings lose their dignity (as in communism), it is okay to kill a baby. Or is it the other away around? Killing our babies allows us to be more affluent?

You know what is interesting? All the drama surrounding abortion. I find it interesting that you look at the developed world and the communist world through such narrow eyes. All you see is affluence? How about educated? Yes, the developed world is educated, as well as affluent. While there is a lot to dislike in Communist governments, all human beings who live in a communist country have not lost their dignity. What a ridiculous, blanket statement to make. No one is ‘killing babies’, either. They are terminating pregnancies. These are fetuses, not babies. Let’s clarify this. Let’s look at the facts, and try to take the drama out of it. There are over 6.6 billion people on this planet. These 6 billion are warring, killing each other as adults and children, polluting the planet, performing heinous crimes against each other, other living things, the planet, etc. We need less humans, not more. If someone does not want to bring a pregnancy to term, they have the right to end it. There are enough abused, unwanted LIVING children. Let’s try to save those. Do all you people who are against abortion want to adopt and save every abused and unwanted child? I don’t think so. So, while I respect your personal distaste for abortion, leave the rest of us alone and get out of our uterus. What I do or don’t do with my body is my personal business, not yours; as yours isn’t mine. Let’s redirect that energy to the living and help the young, the old, the abused, the tortured, the defenseless. There is enough of that to go around, unfortunately.

…or countries that protect women’s rights, including reproductive choice, tend to be more affluent…

…and the phrase “abortion permitted with no restrictions” is very misleading. Most countries, including many states in the US, place significant restrictions on when and how an abortion can be performed. Additionally, unofficial but very real restrictions to access (87% of US counties have no abortion provider, most US women and girls do not have sufficient finances to access abortion within allowed time periods) put this choice well out of the reach of many women and girls.

“Abortion” is the euphemism used for the killing of an innocent and vulnerable human being. And it’s prima facie wrong to kill innocent human beings. All early feminists, from suffragists Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to the founder of modern feminism Mary Wollenscraft, to the writer of the Equal Rights Amendment Mary Alice Paul, were ALL pro-life. Only until the 60’s did the population control advocates hoodwink the more gullible/evil feminists into supporting “abortion.” Abortion is just another way to dehumanize women and children. NOW and other pro-abortion organizations even support “live birth” abortion, where a child is born and then left to die. They opposed the bill to stop this. Sick and evil. See Feminists for Life and Culture Jam for Life.

I have just been introduced to the magazine, and I love it. But your transparency of abortion laws is quite misleading. Roe v. Wade is in danger of being overturned in the U.S., and the cost of the procedure itself is extremely prohibitive. There are quite a few restrictions on abortion in this country, but your map makes it seem like it’s available to any and every woman. It’s not. It’s irresponsible to say that there are no restrictions in the U.S.

I only read this issue of Good last night, and was so shocked by the deceptive nature of this “transparency.” It’s quite the opposite of transparent, actually. I’m glad someone felt the same way I did.

Again, ‘Transparency’ makes another error with Israel; in Israel abortion is allowed if the woman is under 17 or over 40, the pregnancy was conceived under illegal circumstances (rape, incest or outside wedlock), if the child is mentally handicap, or for socioeconomic reasons. Israel is very liberal when it comes to a woman’s right to choose, more than anyone can say about its neighbors.