Canada used to have "theraputic abortion committees" that women had to face before they could get abortions. The process was challenged in '88 and the Supreme Court struck it down.
From the majority decision:
The decision whether to terminate a pregnancy is essentially a moral decision, a matter of conscience. I do not think there is or can be any dispute about that. The question is: whose conscience? Is the conscience of the woman to be paramount or the conscience of the state? I believe, for the reasons I gave in discussing the right to liberty, that in a free and democratic society it must be the conscience of the individual.
Isn't that the sort of reasoning that should work in the US?
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