“Vote, vote, vote.” US President Joe Biden, criticized for his timorous defense of the right to abortion in the United States, called on voters and especially women voters to vote en masse in the next mid-term elections, to counter a Supreme Court that he judged “out of control”Friday, July 8.
The leader spoke as part of the signing of an executive order on a series of regulatory actions with limited scope. He felt that a “record” mobilization of American women for the next election would be “the fastest way” to restore the right to abortion throughout the United States, through federal law. If the Republican Party wins these elections and passes a law banning abortion across the country, Joe Biden has promised to oppose his “veto”.
Many Democrats and activists say the president and his administration should do more for abortion rights, or failing that, be more politically aggressive, after the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. IVG. Some, however, fear the failure of this attempt at electoral mobilization, coming from an unpopular president, and while galloping inflation is the greatest concern of households.
On Friday, the president unleashed his blows against the Supreme Court, judged “out of control”and against the positions “radicals” of the Republican Party. “Now is the time … to protect the nation from an extremist project”which could also call into question the right to contraception or marriage for all, alerted Joe Biden.
Joe Biden then signed a decree launching a series of initiatives, limited in scope, to protect access to abortion in particular. The White House promises, among other things, to “protect sensitive health information” and of “fighting digital surveillance”. Many activists are indeed warning of the dangers linked to online data, from geolocation or applications for monitoring menstrual cycles, which could be exploited to prosecute women who have had an abortion.
The text signed on Friday also plans to protect mobile clinics practicing abortion at the external borders of states that have banned it. The White House also wants to guarantee access to contraception, in particular the morning after pill and IUDs. The US executive also intends to organize a network of volunteer lawyers to help women on the legal front.