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    I wouldn't be surprised to some day see an amendment around the lines of "the right to any elective medical procedure shall not be infringed". An amendment just for abortion seems oddly specific. Commented Jun 27, 2022 at 19:56
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    Agree. Most European states have fairly strict limits about when abortion is not available anymore without health reasons: 14-16 weeks is pretty common. The US's left refusal to address the question of (very, very, infrequent) late abortions as a matter of principle was pretty short sighted. Note that Canada also has no term limits. Which isn't a big deal in practice because abortion is not a huge political issue here. But if it became one, insisting - all or nothing - on the right to late abortion is not very savvy, politically. Commented Jun 27, 2022 at 21:28
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    @ItalianPhilosophers4Monica Honestly, I think Roe was the reason it became such a huge political issue here in the U.S., simply because it foreclosed resolving the issue in some reasonable middle ground via normal political processes. Interestingly, the Dobbs majority opinion expressly shared that opinion. And cited former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg as having expressed the same opinion. Commented Jun 27, 2022 at 21:33
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    @reirab agree. In Canada the Supreme Court granted gay marriage. Harper, not necessarily for very noble reasons, wanted to table it in Parliament, claiming that it was judicial overreach. Cue big hue and cry from the progressives. Result when it was voted on? Push come to shove, very, very, few Conservative parliamentarians voted against gay marriage. Commented Jun 27, 2022 at 21:45
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    @Trilarion They asked lots of different questions about specifics. As far as timelines, legal in the first trimester and illegal from 2nd on have had consistent strong majority responses when not asking about any other details of the circumstances. When the people who said abortion should be legal in at least some circumstances were asked further whether it should be legal only in a few or legal in most, "legal only in a few" + "illegal in all" have have been in the 50-60% range for most of the time, though fell to 45% in the polling last month. Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 5:13