After the shock, demonstrations in the United States against the revocation of the right to abortion. Thousands of people gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington, surrounded by barriers and placed under police protection, on Saturday for a second day in a row.
Several hundred abortion rights defenders also gathered in Los Angeles and other cities, particularly in the states that took advantage of the Court’s judgment to immediately ban abortions on their soil.
By revoking its emblematic judgment “Roe v. Wade”, which since 1973 guaranteed the right of American women to have an abortion, the high court left the States the choice of whether or not to ban abortions in a deeply divided country.
At a rally in Illinois on Saturday, former US President Donald Trump called the Supreme Court’s decision a “victory for the Constitution, a victory for the rule of law, and above all, a victory for life”. He reminded his audience that he pledged during his 2016 presidential campaign to appoint judges who “would uphold the original meaning of the Constitution”.
For the American Christian right, Friday’s decision is a big victory and follows a long campaign to have anti-abortion justices appointed to the Supreme Court. All three justices appointed by Donald Trump voted to revoke the Roe ruling.
Abortion now illegal in several states
Within hours on Friday, at least eight states immediately made all abortions illegal.
Seven others have planned to do the same in the coming weeks, but in fact, clinics there have already stopped performing abortions, as in Texas, the largest American state, where women wishing to have an abortion will now have to have abortions. hundreds of miles to get to the nearest clinic in New Mexico.
In France, the majority has decided to make a bill to enshrine this right in the constitution. The left is in favor of it, but does not hesitate to point out a “turnaround”.
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