We are not alone with a mess of an anti-abortion law...

In the US there is a law that prevents dilatation and evacuation in the 2nd trimester. The Bush administration pushed it through in November last year. Yesterday, in California, this law was overturned by a judge on the grounds that it infringed on the rights of a woman and was medically a necessary procedure given the correct indications. Doctors had started become apprehensive about carrying out this procedure, as the penalty for "partial-birth abortion" (as the procedure was labelled by the Bush administration) was a prison sentence of two years.

There are similar law suits against this Act in Nebraska and New York, which will probably yield similar judgements.

At least there is debate and people are trying to work things out, unlike in our country where things are just foisted on us. Things have become so bad that I've been advised not to even mention the act by name or to say anything about it, because the authorities are just waiting to swoop on radiologists/ultrasonologists at the slightest excuse.