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Jonathan V. Last
Weekly Standard
Sept. 21, 2013
America
is joined only by Canada, North Korea, and China.
It’s
easy to become inured to the state of abortion in the United
States, but every so often someone sends a shock to the system.
In
a new book about the history of Roe, Abuse of Discretion, lawyer
Clarke Forsythe combs through the historical record of the Supreme
Court’s decision, from case files to personal papers, to show
exactly how pell-mell the verdict was. And in the course of
all this he highlights how out-of-the-norm America’s abortion
regime is.
Here’s
Forsythe:
The
United States is an outlier when it comes to the scope of the
abortion “right.” The United States is one of approximately
ten nations (of 195) that allow abortion after fourteen weeks
of gestation. The others are: Canada, China, Great Britain,
North Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Western Australia,
and Vietnam. When it comes to allowing abortion for any reason
after viability, however, the United States is joined only by
Canada, North Korea, and China. The United States got into this
situation because after the second round of arguments in Roe
and Doe, the Justices abruptly decided to expand the abortion
right they were creating to fetal viability—and then beyond.
For forty years, this abrupt decision has had profound implications
for late-term abortions, live-birth abortions, and women’s health.
To
be sure, many nations disapprove of abortion de jure, yet allow
it de facto. But this is a distinction with a difference because
it shows that the culture still has moral bearings, even if
it frequently sets them aside in the name of expediency.
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article was posted: Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 8:31 am
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