Abortion is available in Mexico and Canada as well as in Europe, Asia, in back alleys with crude instruments, in lonely bathroom stalls and many, many other places where Roe is nowhere in sight. Abortion cannot be stopped. It can only be made harder and harder for a woman to get but it’s been around since time out of mind and abortion will be around somewhere, somehow into the future despite the efforts of the 100% male Catholic Church and the efforts of the anti-abortion crowd who are very sincere in their efforts but they know abortion can not be stopped if a woman is determined to have it.
A fetus is part of a woman until birth and the woman has the right to her body. The idea that cancelling Roe will eliminate abortions is fiction. Abortion will be available but it may be restricted by the state in the geographical area of the state that is controlled by each state. Abortion is a complex issue made even more complex by certain religions. Catholicism, a religion controlled by and operated 100% by men, is one of the leaders in the anti-abortion movement. Judaism, for example allows (or even encourages) abortion in order to save the life or health of a pregnant woman but Jewish authorities differ on when and whether it is permitted. Apparently the US Supreme Court is set to invalidate some of the conclusions in Roe which will move the issues of abortion to the individual states. The Religious Right is already having conniption fits and the Liberal Left is too.
For women who want or need an abortion, it’s legal in Mexico. Since 2021, Abortion in Mexico is no longer a crime, although its legalisation still varies by state. On 7 September 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court unanimously ruled that penalising abortion is unconstitutional, setting an important precedent across the whole country.[1][2] The procedure is easily available on request to any woman up to twelve weeks into a pregnancy in Mexico City and the states of Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Colima, Baja California and Sinaloa.
Abortion in Canada is legal at all stages of pregnancy, regardless of the reason, and is publicly funded as a medical procedure under the combined effects of the federal Canada Health Act and provincial health-care systems.[1] However, access to services and resources varies by region.[2] While some non-legal barriers to access continue to exist,[1] Canada is the only nation with absolutely no legal restrictions at the federal level to access abortion services.[3][4] Nevertheless few providers in Canada offer abortion care beyond 23 weeks and 6 days without a medical reason as outlined by provincial regulatory authorities for physicians.[5]
Formally banned in 1869, abortion would remain illegal in Canadian law for the next 100 years.
Europe
Despite a wide variation in the restrictions under which it is permitted, abortion is legal in most European countries. 95% of European women of reproductive age live in countries which allow abortion on demand or for broad socioeconomic reasons.[2] The exceptions are the mini-state of Malta[4] and the micro-states of Vatican City, Liechtenstein and Andorra, and the large state of Poland, where abortion is illegal or severely restricted.[5][6] The other state with existent, but less severe restrictions is Monaco. Abortion was also criminalised in San Marino, but a referendum on 26 September 2021 legalised abortion for women up until the twelfth week of pregnancy.
All the remaining states make abortion legal on request or for social and economic reasons during the first trimester. Restrictions on abortion are most stringent in a few countries that are strongly observant of the Catholic religion.
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