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Ruvan22 posted...

and compromise? Recent laws were not reached through that, but through slim Republican majority in most of the states (that don't match population desires)
B) Apologies for the grammar - I wasn't asking "abortion being right", I was asking "abortion being a right", since you referenced precedence as a guiding principle in determining what rights people have.
C) I'm asking why you mentioned abortion rights/restrictions in other parts of the world

A) I believe that it will be state by state, with some kind of equilibrium being reached through compromise that will likely land around typicaly Western European abortion policy (which is pretty close to where abortion polling is in the US at the moment).

B) Precedent is a guiding principle. However, it is not the only guiding principle. Dred Scott was bad precendent, and deserved to be overturned on it's merits. Being an absolutist is usually not very practical.

C) It's another datapoint. Selective Europhilia is certainly a thing; however, in my experience, Progressives are far more likely to point to Western European policy as a better way to do things than Conservatives (nevermind that Western European policies tend to differ more by country than most people think). Most people in the U.S. are unawhare of how extremist of a policy Roe v Wade enacted relative to the rest of the world, and how this is the case even 50 years later.