The real reason America could buck the global trend on abortion [View all]

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(CNN)The right of women to decide if they want to carry their pregnancies to term is expanding around much of the globe. In Latin America, a deeply Catholic region, the so-called Green Wave is sweeping away restrictions in country after country. To the north, however, the United States is seeming ready to buck a global trend, taking away women's right to decide whether or not to have an abortion.

But why does the US appear to be moving in the opposite direction as much of the rest of the world? And what other rights might be at risk?

The bombshell revelation that the US Supreme Court seems prepared to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the decades-old ruling legalizing abortion, added to the impression around the world that the US, long a bastion of individual freedom, is becoming a more conservative country by the day.

That, however, is the wrong conclusion. The engine driving this change is not a more conservative country. Instead, it is a more dysfunctional political system.

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