• jadero@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Canada deals with some of those problems by having a separation of state and medicine similar to our separation of state and church.

    For example, I think we are the only country in the world with no abortion law. It’s a medical procedure, so it’s left to the medical community to develop standards of care and standards of practice.

    It’s not perfect, but it’s worked out quite well since the 1980s. There were some major cases that led to our abortion laws being struck down by the courts and no government has yet had the courage to introduce new legislation of any kind.

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      8 months ago

      That sounds really nice. We should try separating the state from medicine in America. Heck while we’re at it we could separate the state from religion

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        8 months ago

        Considering one entire half of our political establishment is trying to do away with the separation of church and state altogether, I don’t think we’re gonna have a lot of success with that in the near future, unfortunately.