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Recent Developments in Abortion Law in Industrialized Countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2021
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The last several years have witnessed a growing intensity in the debate over abortion in the United States. Although the issue has never been far from the public eye, with the Supreme Court's decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services in 1989, it assumed a new urgency as it appeared more possible that the Court might reverse Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case guaranteeing a woman a right to an abortion. Moreover, this urgency was not confined to the United States. The same several years also saw an increase in abortion-related legal developments in other industrialized countries of the world: Belgium, Canada, Romania, and Bulgaria significantly liberalized abortion laws; England made changes that take notice of recent medical knowledge on fetal survival and fetal handicap; France became the first country in the world to approve the potentially revolutionary abortion drug RU 486; and Ireland reaffirmed its opposition to abortion.
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