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Comment by guelo | Hacker News Reader

Why is the European angle suddenly in every abortion discussion? I'm fascinated by how these kind of talking points emerge and then are suddenly everywhere, must be some kind of influencer coordination.

(I'll probably get down voted for this because whenever I bring this kind of thing up people seem to get personally offended. Even though it's not your talking point, you picked up somewhere recently)

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Because it's incredibly annoying to hear Europeans to complain about the oppression of US abortion laws which are actually more permissive than the ones in their own country.

The oppression in the US appears to be on the procedural side of things rather than the laws themselves. The impression I often get is that in the US the enforcement of such laws is rather more capricious and hard to predict than in Europe.

I think what most Europeans find difficult to understand is quite how partisan the US system is and how little support is available for those caught up in legal difficulties of this kind.

Just my impression of course, but impression seems to be what a lot of it is about.

Because in Europe there are a lot of civilised countries with freedoms to aspire to.

This doesn't answer the question.

Why should we care what the European standard for abortion is?

Whether or not they have other freedoms that we don't have is irrelevant.

Irrelevant to you maybe? Looking at others for reference and comparison is standard practice. Also, i assume this hackernews community involves a number of European people.

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