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Originally Posted by Cuz
In a legal sense, IMO, the abortion debate is dead. Both the Supreme Courts in the US and Canada have determined that it is unconstitutional to deny a woman the right to an abortion. Furthermore, it would be political suicide, except maybe in the most conservative of areas, for a government to enact legislation limiting access to abortions. So outside of debates brought by the most extreme, I think there is little to worry about for those that believe in a woman's right to choose.
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In a legal sense yes, maybe.
In the practical sense the US has made it very difficult for a vulnerable and marginalized woman to get an abortion. This is especially true in the Southern states, where in most states there is only one clinic in the entire state. Now a poor young woman from a minority is supposed to find money to travel across the state (by herself because she is stigmatized) and navigate the protesters (and in some states go through "counselling") before she can get access to a poorly equipped clinic.
Funding has been severely restricted and clinics significantly regulated. On top of which very few doctors are actually performing the procedures, mostly because it is hard to get insurance, and they don't want the daily struggle and death threats.
That doesn't sound like this is what the fight has been about, it is a long struggle.