Legal and political frameworks governing access to abortion services. One of the most contested social policy issues globally, intersecting with religion, women's rights, and constitutional law.
Should governments protect or restrict access to abortion services?
Protect reproductive autonomy; legal access to abortion as a fundamental right
Restrict or ban abortion; protect fetal rights; conscience exemptions for providers
U.S. Dobbs decision returned regulation to states; Latin America liberalizing; Europe mostly settled
One of the two major parties in the United States and the world's oldest continuing voter-based party. Modern Democrats are a broad center-left coalition that supports civil rights, labor protections, environmental policy, and an active federal role in social welfare and economic regulation.
One of the two major parties in the United States. Founded in the 1850s as an anti-slavery party, the modern GOP is a conservative coalition associated with lower taxes, deregulation, tighter immigration policy, conservative jurisprudence, and nationalist politics.