The website Politico caused a political explosion on Monday evening May 2, 2022 by revealing, on the basis of an unprecedented leak of an internal document, that a majority of the judges of the Supreme Court were ready to bury the judgment “Roe v. Wade of 1973, which protects the right of American women to terminate their pregnancies.
The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the text, a draft judgment dated February, while stressing that it did not represent a “final” decision, eagerly awaited. If the Court were to adopt it, each of the 50 American states would regain the right to prohibit abortion on its soil and half of them, mainly in the South and the conservative and religious Center, would have to take this route. The Republican governors of Tennessee and South Dakota signaled Monday that they would not delay. The day before, Democratic governors of several states including California, New Mexico and Michigan, had on the contrary announced that they wanted to enshrine the legality of the right to abortion even if the Court annulled “Roe v. Wade”.
The nine wise men examined in December a law in Mississippi which reduces the deadline for an abortion to 15 weeks of pregnancy against two trimesters according to the framework set by the high Court. During the hearing, several of them made it clear that they intended to take advantage of this case to unravel or simply annul the “Roe v. Wade” judgment. According to politics, five then rallied to this second option. “If the argument for the decision, as published, is confirmed, a whole series of other rights would be in question“, said Joe Biden, referring to the right to contraception or gay marriage.