According to the US news site, the nation’s highest court has drafted a decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, who made abortion a constitutional right in 1973. This reversal, if it came into force, would be a victory for the conservative states which multiply the restrictions against abortion.
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It was a leak that had the effect of a bomb. The US Supreme Court is preparing to overturn the landmark ruling that made abortion a constitutional right in the United States, according to the US news site Politico, which is based on an unprecedented leak of documents. A threat to the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), and a victory for conservative states.
The media says it has obtained the preliminary draft of a majority decision (in English), written by conservative judge Samuel Alito and dated February 10. In it, the Supreme Court asserts that Roe v. Wade, who argued in 1973 that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to abortion, is “totally unfounded from the start”. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion”who “constitutes a profound moral question” and “is not deeply rooted in the history and traditions of the Nation”according to the judge.
The text can be negotiated until June 30, but if it is implemented, the United States will return to the situation in force before 1973, when each State was free to authorize or prohibit abortions. It is the latter option that is being chosen by more and more Republican-led states: the vast majority have already put in place restrictions that make abortion difficult if not impossible.
The reactions of supporters of the right to abortion in the United States were immediate. “Let’s be clear: this is a preliminary draft. It is scandalous, unprecedented but not final: abortion remains your right and is still legal”, tweeted the organization Planned Parenthood, which runs many clinics that perform abortions. Around 200 abortion rights advocates met spontaneously in the evening in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, and several elected Democrats considered that this court decision called for “put Roe V. Wade into law”as Senator Amy Klobuchar said on Twitter.
But the measure is being fiercely obstructed by Republicans, who are blocking a proposal to do so in the Senate and have hailed a long-awaited victory. “This is the best and most important news of our lives”commented Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, as her conferee Josh Hawley called on the Court to publish “right now” its stop.
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