the Biden camp makes the right to abortion a campaign subject for the presidential election

Two years after the decision of the American Supreme Court to repeal the right to abortion at the federal level, Joe Biden is making it an issue in his race for the White House, against Donald Trump.

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US President Joe Biden, May 31, 2024. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Two years ago, Monday June 24, the American Supreme Court revisited the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision protecting the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy. A date that the Democrats are putting forward to denounce Trump’s role in this turnaround, just over four months before the presidential election.

The young woman’s name is Kaitlyn. She sits on a sofa and tells, on camera, that she was refused care in Louisiana for a miscarriage at eleven weeks pregnant. According to her, this is a direct consequence of Donald Trump’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Biden team is broadcasting this campaign clip because they know that the subject will weigh heavily at the polls.

Seventeen states have restricted or banned abortion for two years, mainly in the south and center of the country. And the Republicans have lost almost every election where abortion has been a question since. “Trump is solely responsible for this nightmare,” Biden wrote in a statement. And his vice-president, Kamala Harris, is on the front line: traveling to Maryland and Arizona on Monday. And interview with MSNBC: It’s about freedom. Every person, regardless of gender, should understand that while one freedom, as fundamental as the right to make decisions about one’s own body, can be taken away, other freedoms may be at stake.”

Trump continues to say that he is proud to have appointed the three conservative judges who weighed in the 2022 decision. But he insists that it is up to each state to decide on abortion and his spokesperson says he is also in favor of women having access to the care they need. The subject will obviously be on the menu for the first debate between the two candidates on Thursday evening.


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