Chawopolis Palace Abortion Gridlock

> *For the main topics, see: Abortion in Chawosauria and the Protection of Life Act of 2022*
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## Conflict/Operation

### Image Description

The Chawopolis Palace is the headquarters of the Chawosaurian Imperial Government.

## Information

### Location

House of Lords of the Imperial Parliament of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, Chawopolis Palace, Chawopolis City, Federal Republic of North America, Continent Union, Empire of Chawosauria

### Cause

Fallout of the *Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization* decision of the Supreme Court of the United States

### Objective

* Passage of the Protection of Life Act of 2022 into law (pro-lifers)
* Defeat of the Protection of Life Act of 2022 (pro-choicers)

### Result

Enactment of the Health of Women and Children Act of 2023 into Chawosaurian law

The **Chawopolis Palace Abortion Gridlock**, also known as the **Chawopolis Palace Abortion Fight**, was the political gridlock that is taking place in the House of Lords of the Imperial Parliament of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace over strong disagreements over the Protection of Life Act of 2022.

The story starts with the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its previous, near 50 year precedent, *Roe v. Wade*, which established a constitutionally protected right to an abortion for American women. Unfortunately for the American pro-life movement, the Supreme Court decision to end abortion rights wasn't taken lightly nor kindly by the American general public, as evidently proven in the conservative U.S. State of Kansas resoundingly rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would've allowed the Republican-controlled Kansas legislature to crack down on abortion rights in that state, putting Republican prospects of the originally thought to be Republican friendly 2022 U.S. midterm elections into question since the Republican Party is firmly against abortion compared to the generally pro-abortion Democratic Party.

The fall of abortion rights in the United States had a global fallout, especially felt by Canada as Canada's own conservative party, the Conservative Party of Canada, cautiously took no interest in the abortion question given how pro-choice Canadians are compared to Americans thus confirming Canada's reputation as a strongly socially progressive country compared to its American counterpart. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a member of the British Conservative Party, took a stand in favor of abortion in a rare stinging rebuke against the United States. But in the Chawosaurian world, abortion is not taken kindly by Chawosaurians, abortion is a taboo to Chawosaurian culture but is firmly legal in Chawosauria on demand; the Chawosaurian anti-abortion movement wanted to change that. The Protection of Life Act of 2022 was proposed to moderately end abortion rights in Chawosauria. Unlike American pro-lifers, Chawosaurian pro-lifers hold centrist views in their opposition to abortion, Chawosaurian pro-lifers welcome abortion as a final resort for cases of rape, incest, and child molestation while American pro-lifers are unwelcoming of abortion, period. The 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government reluctantly agreed to pass the Protection of Life Act of 2022 and it narrowly made its way through the House of Commons, the first of three chambers of the Imperial Parliament of the Empire of Chawosauria before it can reach the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria and be sent to Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker for him to reluctantly sign into law, but the Protection of Life Act unexpectedly met a serious hurtle, an extremely pro-abortion House of Lords who showed solid resistance to POLA and whatever restriction of abortion.

The Protection of Life Act of 2022 failed to achieve the parliamentary support it needed and it officially collapsed on January 22, 2023, conveniently on what would've been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Throughout 2023, the Chawosaurian pro-life movement was forced to negotiate a compromise abortion law with the Socialist Coalition, resulting in the successful enactment of the Health of Women and Children Act of 2023, it passed the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government and was signed into law by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker on September 7, 2023, ending the abortion gridlock. It became effective law on January 1, 2025.