Mexican court ruling upholding women's right to abortion shows global trend better than US Roe v Wade decision

By Sydney Calkin, Reader in Geography, Queen Mary University of London

It may surprise you to learn that, over the past 30 years, no fewer than 60 countries have liberalised their abortion laws while only four have rolled back abortion rights. The United States is, of course, one of the latter group that has recently restricted women’s access to abortion.

Because the US looms so large in international news coverage of abortion, casual observers often assume that anti-abortion reforms…

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