Thu Dec 2, 2021 – 2:17 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts noted during Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization oral hearings Wednesday that Roe v. Wade places American abortion law in the same class as China and North Korea.
Roberts pointed out during questioning that the 15-week mark, at which abortions are banned in the Mississippi law HB 1510 at issue in Dobbs, is not only “not a dramatic departure from viability,” but also a “standard that the vast majority of other countries have.”
“When you get to the viability standard, we share that standard with the People’s Republic of China and North Korea,” said Roberts, highlighting the fact that the legalization of on-demand abortion until the age of viability is something the U.S. has in common with these brutally oppressive Asian nations and a handful of other countries.
As even the left-wing Washington Post has admitted, the United States, China, and North Korea are among seven of 198 nations that allow elective abortions (abortion for any reason) after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The others are Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Vietnam.
The pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that “47 out of 50 European countries analyzed” “either do not allow elective abortion (8 countries) or limit elective abortion to 15 weeks or earlier (39 countries).
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