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It's really nuanced and difficult for outsiders to grasp fully. The author says "In Germany, abortion is always illegal (sort of) but simply not punished in the
by maweki 4y ago
It's really nuanced and difficult for outsiders to grasp fully. The author says "In Germany, abortion is always illegal (sort of) but simply not punished in the first 12 weeks." which is not true. You also have to have a "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German).
This counseling session is mandatory for abortion not being punished. The thing is, in rural areas this counseling is often only available through church-based institutions (which often try to discourage abortions) and during the pandemic many state-based agencies that provide this counseling were used for contact tracing.
So there are many small hurdles which are difficult to put into numbers.
I don't try to detract from the author. It's a good effort at classification. The devil's in the detail.
Edit: I do understand that the counseling itself is mentioned in the article. The intricacies of it are condensed to "tricky". Which is true, but really difficult to classify.
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- DiogenesKynikos 4y ago> "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German). Just a linguistic note: German and English are almost exactly the same in how they make large compound words. The only difference is that when you write English, you put spaces between the different words that make up the compound, but when you write German, you leave out the spaces. But when spoken, they're exactly the same. Germans could theoretically change their orthographic rules to write, "Schwangerschafts Konflikt Beratung," but they don't.
- zaroth 4y agoThanks for explaining this! So which is more likely, Germans adding proper whitespace in their written language, or Germans codifying legal abortion before 12 weeks?
- kayyay 4y agoWell, now that the Conservative parties are in the opposition they did do away with 218a, there's hope 219 will follow at some point
- swores 4y agoI think we should switch to their style instead https://youtube.com/watch?v=glrIzdHWhgw https://youtube.com/watch?v=glrIzdHWhgw
- throwaway894345 4y agoHonestly I often put dashes between words that should be grouped together when the parsing might otherwise be ambiguous. It's definitely not a perfect solution (no support for arbitrary nesting, not "standard" English), but it's a bit better for parsing than the German solution insofar as the delimiter isn't an empty string. :)
- smsm42 4y agoI get why, Arbeiterunfallverischerungsgesetz sounds much better than the boring "worker's compensation law".
- iforgotpassword 4y ago> You also have to have a "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German). That's mentioned in the article: > if (a) it’s during the first 12 weeks, (b) the woman has obtained counseling, and (c) there’s been a three-day waiting period.
- anon291 4y agoSounds like Mississippi
- tpush 4y agoYou need to read the article further; the author mentioned what you talk about.
- throwaway894345 4y agoUpvote if only for > "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German).
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