One year to the day after the historic reversal of the Supreme Court on the right to abortion, cursed or celebrated on Saturday by Americans across the country, Joe Biden has promised to fight against the “extreme and dangerous program of the Republicans”.
On June 24, 2022, the high court, profoundly overhauled by ex-President Donald Trump who appointed three conservative judges to it, overturned its judgment. Roe v. wade which guaranteed since 1973 the right to abortion to American women on the whole territory.
From then on, the States regained their freedom to legislate and about twenty of them decreed in the wake of a ban or significant restrictions on access to abortion. Others, on the contrary, have adopted new safeguards.
“State-level bans are just the beginning. Congressional Republicans want to ban abortion nationwide,” Joe Biden said in a statement released on the anniversary of the court ruling on Saturday.
An ambition clearly claimed during an event organized on Saturday by conservative and religious associations at the foot of the Lincoln memorial, in the federal capital, under the curious gaze of tourists.
The Supreme Court’s decision “was a good first step”, but we must now “finish the job” and “protect lives in all states”, explained to Agence France-Presse Steve Karlen, member of the association “40 Days for Life”, who came from Wisconsin with his wife.
A total ban on the right to abortion “will happen one day. We no longer have slavery in our country, and the day will come when we will no longer have abortions, ”assured his wife, Laura Karlen, all smiles.
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Faced with these ambitions relayed by several Republican representatives, President Joe Biden promised once again on Saturday that his administration would continue to “protect” women’s health.
He also called on “Congress to restore” the constitutional right to abortion, which however has little chance of succeeding given the division of the two chambers between Democrats and Republicans.
The subject of abortion is tearing American society apart and could play a central role in the upcoming US presidential election.
According to a recent CBS/YouGov poll, 63% of Americans say they oppose a nationwide abortion ban.
Several other protests and events are planned for Saturday across the United States, organized by both pro and anti-abortion protesters.
A large rally of the evangelical and conservative movement “Faith and Freedom”, which has made the ban on abortion one of its main fights, is also to be held on Saturday in Washington, in which Donald Trump is to participate.