i feel that you have made a post that will serve to misinform others so i want to offer some corrections under the assumption that you are not operating in bad faith.

>It’s a decision that enshrines as a right elective second trimester abortions

>State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. [0]

>This means, on the other hand, that, for the period of pregnancy prior to this "compelling" point, the attending physician, in consultation with his patient, is free to determine, without regulation by the State, that, in his medical judgment, the patient's pregnancy should be terminated. If that decision is reached, the judgment may be effectuated by an abortion free of interference by the State. [1]

>something that’s illegal in nearly every other developed nation

>second trimester starts at week 13

france allows abortions for the first 14 weeks (into the second trimester) and allows for medical exceptions even later same with spain

>Current Norwegian legislation and public health policy provides for abortion on request in the first 12 weeks of gestation, by application up to the 18th week, and thereafter only under special circumstances until the fetus is viable

sweden allows abortions through 18 weeks and allows for medical exceptions even later

denmark allows abortions after 12 weeks due to various conditions including poor socioeconomic status of the mother

>In Great Britain, abortion is generally allowed for socio-economic reasons during the first twenty-four weeks of the pregnancy germany seems the most severe of the large EU countries which allows for abortions in the first trimester and only after that in cases of unlawful sexual acts.

the US state of Ohio, for example, made abortions illegal at ~6 weeks today, so I feel your comparison to "other developed nations" leads the uninformed to believe that the US states are enacting similar laws to other developed nations, which is not the case.

also the overwhelming majority (>90%) of abortions in the US are during the first trimester

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/410/113 [1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/

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