It’s a very white European version of “humanism” that treats reproduction as inconvenient baggage that gets in the way of individual self fulfillment instead of sanctifying it as core to the human experience.
Considering the millions of people fleeing to the US and EU every year- including many from El Salvador- I would say the marketplace of ideas has spoken.
Considering that the white European populations of both those places are in decline, and they’re utterly reliant on those migrants, it sounds like the marketplace has also said something about the sustainability of different belief systems.
If the “humanist” standard is Roe v. Wade, as stated above, then most of asia doesn’t meet the standard. Abortion in Asia tends to be viewed more though a population control lens than an individualist “humanist” lens as is the case in the west. The main exception is probably India, which was heavily influenced by British colonization, and the former Soviet bloc or Soviet aligned countries.
My dad spent the first part of his career in public health family planning (I.e. making sure there weren’t too many Bangladeshis) including working for a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Bangladesh. But that’s distinctly something to control the population of “those people” and not anything we would ever talk about among “our people.”
But for example abortion is still technically illegal in Japan, even if it’s available in practice (reflecting the quintessential Japanese willingness to live with a little inconsistency to avoid having to compromise principle and pragmatism).
