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White European and… almost all of Asia?



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).




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