Scrapping Roe v. Wade makes the US an outlier in the West. Here's how it compares on abortion rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Anti-abortion protests occasionally take place in countries including the UK, where some councils have responded by reducing protesters' ability to interact with people entering clinics.
53% : Of the 36 countries the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs defines as developed economies, all but two -- Poland and Malta -- allow abortions on request or on broad health and socio-economic grounds, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), which campaigns for improved access to abortion and monitors laws worldwide.
52% : The move counters a global trend towards freer access to abortion, and places the US in a very small club of countries that have moved to restrict access in recent years.
51% : Activists around the EU have also called for loosening restrictions in their countries; in Germany for instance, abortion is permitted up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, but people seeking the procedure are required to attend a compulsory counseling session, which is followed by a mandatory three-day waiting period.
48% : The US' northern neighbor, Canada, is one of the few countries which allows abortion at any point during pregnancy.
48% : But other countries in the region have moved towards allowing abortion.
48% : Argentina's Senate voted to legalize abortion up to 14 weeks in December 2020, making the country the largest nation in Latin America at the time to legalize the practice.
47% : Japan, alongside countries like Finland and India, makes provisions for abortion in cases of rape or risk to the woman's health, but also on wider socioeconomic grounds.
46% : Since 2018 the procedure has been decriminalized in both Queensland and New South Wales; both states allow access to abortion up to 22 weeks.
46% : In February, Colombia followed suit, with the country's Constitutional Court ruling in favor of legalizing abortion up until 24 weeks of a pregnancy, the supreme tribunal announced in a statement.
45% : But an end to federal protection of abortion will see parts of the US join those ranks.
44% : In developed countries where abortion is legal, none have set a gestation limit as early as six weeks -- as a Texas law that the Supreme Court looked at last year did -- according to the CRR.
43% : Until Friday, the US was one of 56 countries where abortion was legal at a woman's request, with no requirement for justification, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
43% : Most European Union nations -- including those in the G7 -- allow abortion with gestation limits, the most common being 12 weeks, according to monitoring charities including CRR.
43% : South Australia became the final state to decriminalize abortion this year.
40% : Abortion is now only allowed in Poland in cases of rape or incest or when the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother.
39% : More than half of US states were certain or likely to ban abortion once Roe was overturned, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
39% : As in the US, access to abortion varies in each Australian state and territory -- and until recently, some regions criminalized the procedure.
38% : And Ecuador has also recently taken steps to loosen restrictions on abortion in cases of rape.
34% : Here's how the US compares with the rest of the world on the issue of abortion following the ruling.
34% : In countries where abortion is restricted or illegal, evidence suggests that the number of procedures does not fall -- instead, women resort to unsafe, so-called "backstreet" abortions, according to the WHO.
34% : The Polish government has made abortion a wedge issue since coming to power in 2015, appealing to social conservatives in the overwhelmingly Catholic nation, but sparking massive protests in the country's more liberal cities.
30% : In Nicaragua and El Salvador, abortion is completely illegal in every circumstance and prison sentences in the latter country can stretch up to 40 years.
18% : Last year, Mexico's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, in a decision impacting precedent for the legal status of abortion nationwide.

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