The EU Is Mad About Dobbs
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Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
France is pretty mad at the United States. In fact, the entire European Union is mad, so mad in fact, they wrote a strongly worded letter. Earlier this month the EU passed a resolution condemning the United States Supreme Court's ruling in the Dobbs abortion case, which overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the matter of abortion restrictions back to individual state legislatures.
Parliamentarians said the Dobbs ruling showed that "women's and girls' rights" are under attack. The strange part is that the Mississippi law which sparked the Dobbs case restricts abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. That's one week later than France's law, which restricts elective abortions after 14 weeks.
It gets weirder: The EU's condemnation also warns the Dobbs ruling could embolden "anti-gender" groups around the world. But if abortion is about the rights of "women and girls," that implies we know how to define "woman" and "girl."
It's all a silly bit of posturing, but if the EU is worried Dobbs will change the world, I hope they're right.
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| 0:00.0 | France is pretty mad at the United States. |
| 0:03.0 | The Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:05.0 | The entire European Union is mad at the U.S., so mad in fact that they wrote a strongly worded letter. |
| 0:11.0 | Earlier this month, the EU passed a resolution condemning the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Dobbs' abortion case, |
| 0:17.0 | which overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the matter of abortion back to individual state |
| 0:21.2 | legislatures. Parliamentarians said the D' Dobbs ruling showed that women's and girls' rights |
| 0:25.5 | are under attack. A strange part of that is that the Mississippi law, which sparked the |
| 0:29.6 | Dobbs case, restricts abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. That's a full week later than |
| 0:34.3 | Francis Law, which restricts elective abortion after 14 weeks, and it gets |
| 0:38.3 | weirder. The EU's condemnation also warns that the Dobb ruling could embolden anti-gender |
| 0:42.9 | groups around the world. But if abortion is about the rights of women and girls, doesn't that |
| 0:47.7 | imply we know how to define woman and girl? It's all a silly bit of posturing. But if the EU is really |
| 0:53.5 | worried that Dobbs would change the world, |
| 0:55.9 | well, I hope they're right. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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