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What is astounding is how hard it is to find what the law says in some places. The article suggest that's the case in Israel where the situation is quite confusing.

For another example Brazil is quite confusing where even the phisicians don't know when it can or can't be done.

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It's not surprising to me. It is an extremely complex topic that touches on so many aspects of rights, norms, safety, poverty, individual vs collective, etc etc. I don't think it will ever be settled, and the best we'll see is the laws vaguely reflecting different trends, but in the end they will rarely have teeth.

But there’s some cases where it should be crystal clear and still isn’t.

If the pregnancy isn’t viable (e g the egg is fertilised but hasn’t traveled to the right place on the womb before “taking hold”), then abortion should be legal. If the phoetus has died, then abortion should be legal. There’s some clear-cut cases like that where it’s clear it should be legal and yet in some places the law is still “vague”.

The laws are not even vague, it's outright illegal. These people are pushing to make abortion in the case of ectopic pregnancy illegal, and in at least one case have succeeded.

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