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Comment author: wnoise 08 March 2011 11:45:56AM 3 points [-]

That merely means that it will be hard to convince people to adopt that line, not that it isn't a Schelling point, nor that it is not a conservative one with respect to the issues of harm to a person.

In any case, here are two countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada

In Canada there are no legal restrictions at all. The laws were struck down by their Supreme Court, and no others laws have been passed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Australia

In Australia it is regulated by state, not nationally. In the ACT, there are no restrictions whatever. They repealed the previous abortion code entirely.

Neither of these means it is trivial to get a late term abortion, of course. Not criminalized is not the same thing as unregulated as a medical procedure.