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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by seydor on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:12PM (#35415268)
i dont think anyone seriously debates whether abortion should be outlawed in western europe. It's just not a political topic in almost all of europe. Some very conservative parties use the US hype to rally their own supporters but it's just not working as an issue, abortion is to a very large degree culturally acceptable.
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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by throwawayiionqz on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:24PM (#35415382)
Abortion in Poland is legal only in cases when the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is in danger.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Poland#Legal_sta...

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by Quarrelsome on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:05PM (#35415755)
Abortion ebbs and flows. As someone else mentioned, currently Poland has placed severe restrictions on it and Ireland only legalised it something like 20 years ago, N.Ireland only decriminalised it about 5 years ago.

I would also suggest that considering the miserable failure of the mid-terms that the US has a similar strong average relatively set against limiting access to abortion too. Although I do appreciate that some areas of the US are more traditionally religious areas and more similar to the conservatives in Poland.

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by barrkel on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:47PM (#35416101)
Abortion was only legalized in Ireland in 2018.

Abortion is one of the few cultural topics which doesn't tend towards borad consensus. E.g. acceptance of gay rights has a tipping point and then drifts towards the 90s+%, but abortion does not.

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by wkat4242 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:57PM (#35417216)
It's still very limited in Ireland and it took the death of a pregnant woman to make this happen.

Her husband begged the doctors to terminate her pregnancy in order to save her life but he was told "this is a Catholic country".

I marched myself on this dark day in Galway but Ireland still has a long way to go to become truly independent from its Catholic stranglehold. That caused so much pain especially to the youth.

But they are on their way yes, I was especially happy when the gay marriage made it through.

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by midoridensha on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:48PM (#35417579)
You don't think Ireland is part of western Europe? You don't think Poland counts as part of Europe and the EU?
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