> ... Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Suadi Arabia, The Russian Federation and Turkey A key issue in women's rights is reproductive freedom. To varying degrees,

> ... Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Suadi Arabia, The Russian Federation and Turkey A key issue in women's rights is reproductive freedom. To varying degrees, abortion is legal in every country you just mentioned. Abortion is generally allowed under Islam. Afghanistan and Pakistan have stricter laws than, say, Turkey but they have usable exceptions (life of th emother, life of the fetus) where the states in the US that have enacted abortion bans generally have the patina of exceptions. These are exceptions so vague and so strict that they're intended never to be used (eg [1]). Russia has started limiting abortion access. India allows abortion. So yes, by some measures, the countries you mentioned do, to varying degrees, have more freedom for women. The issue I think is that many in the US have very skewed views of both how draconian and restrictive some US laws are and a warped view of life in Islamic and other non-Western countries. Back to prisons, the US has roughly 2 million inmates [2], roughly 1% of the adult population and by every metric this makes the US the most carceral state on Earth. So why aren't we the safest? [1]: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsuit-kate-cox/ https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsu... [2]: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html