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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Why America's obsession with rights is wrong

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Canadian Supreme Court Decision on Abortion

In 19 88, the canadian supreme court ruled that all apportions were legal and that it was a matter of fundamental rights for women. This not only didn't lead to american style polarization on abortion, it actually has successfully taken the issue off the table. Even even bringing up the idea that you might want to do something to change the country's abortion settlement is considered such a negative that the conservative candidate has to distance himself from it. The dynamics around abortion right in the us are intermingled very deeply with questions of race in the 19 seventies.

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