The end of “Roe v.
Wade” – this historic judgment of 1973 which had legalized abortion across the Atlantic – makes the United States “one of only four countries in the world to have abolished the protection of the right to abortion in the last 25 years. “, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
But while this right remains under threat in some countries, progress has been made in other parts of the world...
Mexico, Colombia, South Korea and Thailand relax their legislation
In Mexico, a predominantly Catholic country, abortion has long been banned... but last year it was decriminalized in some states up to the twelfth week, or even longer in cases of rape or to save the life of wife ;
and since February 2022, in Colombia, women can have recourse to abortion until the sixth month of gestation.
In Asia, things have also evolved: in South Korea, abortion was decriminalized last year up to the 14th week of pregnancy;
in Thailand, Parliament voted in January 2021 to legalize abortion in the first 12 weeks (while continuing to provide penalties for later terminations).
As our map shows, Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America remain continents that are mostly hostile to abortion.
In Europe, the total ban is an exception since it only concerns Malta, the Vatican and Andorra.
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