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Comment by testing22321

6 days ago

It’s always worth pointing out there are many billions of people who live completely free of this fear of reprisals from the state/country they live in

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mschuster91  6 days ago

Unfortunately, the right to abortion is under fire worldwide. I'm not just talking about the usual suspects like Russia or Islamist theocracies, but also here in Europe... Hungary and Poland being the first suspects, but Italy is also planning to restrict it [1]. And in Germany, the last government at least banned "pro-life" haunting events, but there are wide swaths especially in Bavaria where there is no doctor or clinic providing abortion at all, even in medical emergency scenarios, because church-run hospitals can and do ban it.

[1] https://www.rnd.de/politik/abtreibungsgesetz-in-italien-rech...

  • rtkwe  6 days ago

    Yeah the conservative rubber banding and backsliding isn't isolated to just the US right now we're just ahead of the rest of the pack partially because of our government and election structure being more beholden to the GOP because of the senate and gerrymandering in the states after the 2010 election and subsequent redistricting.

isodev  6 days ago

True, but for many, even “local only” apps store their data on devices managed by US-based companies. Would Apple sell your data to advertisers? - probably not. Would Apple share your data with law enforcement? - of course, and they don’t even need to tell you.

  • testing22321  6 days ago

    Law enforcement in developed countries don’t care about that information. The right to abortion is part of society, and strongly held.