While the right to abortion is already a major subject of the campaign for the 2024 presidential election in the United States, Joe Biden on Friday garnered the support of major associations for the defense of women’s rights.
Planned Parenthood, NARAL and Emily’s List have officially called for votes for US President and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“They don’t waver” in defense of abortion rights, Planned Parenthood tweeted, while NARAL said the two leaders had “done more than any other government to defend and expand reproductive freedoms.” »
These supports will be expressed Friday during a public event in Washington in the presence of the two interested parties.
On the same day and also in the federal capital, a large rally of the evangelical and conservative movement “Faith and Freedom” began, which made the ban on abortion one of its main battles.
Former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, contenders for the Republican nomination for 2024, defended intransigent positions on abortion, the former urging his competitors to support the principle of a federal law that would limit the delays for abortion across the country.
Donald Trump is due to deliver a speech there on Saturday.
The American Christian right played a significant role in the Supreme Court’s reversal almost a year ago on abortion.
On June 24, 2022, the high court, deeply overhauled by Donald Trump, had canceled its judgment Roe v. wadewhich since 1973 has guaranteed the right of American women to have an abortion throughout the territory, giving each state its freedom to legislate.
Since then, the country has been fractured between the twenty or so states that have decreed bans or strong restrictions, mainly located in the south and center of the country, and those on the coasts that have adopted new guarantees.
Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, has not always been an enthusiastic proponent of abortion rights in the past.
” God’s will “
But the 80-year-old Democrat, whose popularity rating remains anemic, has taken on the role of the first defender of the right to abortion with a conviction that does not prevent a certain sense of political expediency.
On Friday, one of its spokespersons recalled on Twitter that according to a recent CBS / YouGov poll, 63% of Americans opposed a federal ban on abortion, which would apply to all of the United States. .
Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s predecessor and currently considered his most serious rival for 2024, recently said that the Supreme Court’s decision was “God’s will”.
But, unlike some conservatives, he is not vociferously calling for a federal ban.
Republicans were burned by the failure of anti-abortion referendums in the very conservative states of Kentucky and Kansas, which showed nuances in their electorate.
Since the White House, Joe Biden has therefore multiplied strong statements aimed at women, but without a strong majority in Congress, his regulatory powers remain limited.
It nevertheless issued a series of decrees to marginally protect access to abortion and announced measures on Friday to also guarantee, as much as possible, access to contraception.
The right to abortion is a subject that crystallizes political divisions in the United States, and which, for many voters, alone decides the ballot they slip into the ballot box.
This is even more true since the Supreme Court decision a year ago.
No less than 28% of Americans registered on the electoral lists declare, for example, according to a Gallup poll published on June 21, that they vote exclusively according to the position of the candidates on the voluntary termination of pregnancy.
They were 27% in a survey conducted in May 2022, which was already a record level, assures the pollster.