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by Levitz 908 days ago
This is a map of countries in which abortion is legal:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ab...

This is a map of democratic countries:

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/18737.jpeg

You might notice a resemblance. Want to do gay rights next?

2 comments

Your maps appear to support the premise put forward by aaomidi.

The USofA is labelled there as not very democratic, grouped as with "Flawed Democracies" and the premise put forward was that US Democracy was stripping rights (eg: abortion) and perhaps wasn't a great example of a good democracy.

> You might notice a resemblance.

Only if you really-really squint and look only at americas, while ignoring most of Eurasia and huge chunk of Africa where most of the world's population happens to live.

I hardly see much of a global correlation here.