Quote of the Day (before)

In Saturday's Opinion Journal was a column discussing the country's abortion landscape if Roe v. Wade was overturned. It was interesting, but what really caught my attention was this post-Roe comparison between America and the "progressive" European countries:

One of Roe's many paradoxes is that it instantly gave the U.S. one of the most permissive abortion laws in the Western world. Many European countries require counseling and/or waiting periods and most--including Germany, France and Sweden--forbid it after the first trimester or early into the second. Britain and Japan allow it only when the physical or mental health of the woman is at stake, and in Japan the husband's permission is required. By contrast, U.S. law falls into the same no-questions-asked category as China and the former countries of the Soviet Union.

Tell me again how we're so progressive, if the only countries we can emulate are the communists, which feature such enlightened policies as forced abortions and sterilizations?