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Both the Netherlands and UK allow abortions for any reason at 23 weeks.

It's at will in Norway up to 12 weeks and via specialist approved application to 18 weeks. In a number of European countries it is even more conservative.

It doesn't matter - EU citizens can go anywhere within the EU, so they'd just move to a place where this is okay and have it done anyway.

So you mean same as in the USA.

Aren't certain states actively trying to make it illegal to go out of state for an abortion or support others in doing so[0]? If this is true, that doesn't sound the same at all; I know of no such attempts actively under way in the EU.

[0] - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/abortion...

European states are unlikely to prosecute you for all but gravest breaches of domestic law while abroad. That doesn't mean it is legal however. You wouldn't want to have it on your medical record probably, and treating any complications can be problematic.

Besides, the practicality of going elsewhere for abortion is a huge Q. For most people arguing for it, it's only a mental exercise. But we once tried to replace prescription glasses my wife left at home while on a trip in the UK. It's effectively impossible, don't tell me you can just walk to a clinic being a foreign national with no residence in the UK and ask NHS for abortion.

Abortion specifically is significantly easier to achieve this for, because it's a reproductive rights issue.

did you just suggest that moving countries is an easy way of getting an abortion? First of all getting a doctor in a country you are not a citizen of to perform it in the first place is difficult. I am also unsure if a country like Denmark would prosecute a woman for aborting at 24 weeks outside its borders.

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