because they are not contested in europe, only in the US
> privacy is a much greater
It's nowhere near as important as housing or employment i think. Strict privacy was mainly championed by German Greens, not a pan-european issue
every single one of those issues gets discussed in Europe. The US does not have a monopoly on social issues, I fear you are just showing the limits of your perspective.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Poland#Legal_sta...
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.
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.
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.