The project of decision of the Supreme Court, unveiled Monday evening by the site Politicois “an alert and now is not the time to remain silent […] We must get angry, ”harangued the magistrate, qualifying defending the right to abortion “of one of the greatest battles to be waged”. “We won’t go back, we won’t go back to when we used coat hangers. Never again ! “, she promised, judging that” the right to control (his) body was a fundamental right “. “Abortion is a human right. Fight, fight, fight! chanted the crowd.
“My body, my choice”
Many young women held up placards bearing slogans such as “my body, my choice”, “stop the war against women” or “I will have less rights than my mother”. One, Lauryn Workman, a 22-year-old African-American, said “a lot of people were going to feel insecure.” For this protester, the violation of the right to abortion in the United States “is not only an issue of the right to procreation, it is a question of racial justice, economic justice […] We have to fight on all fronts”.
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On Tuesday, Democratic President Joe Biden launched a major political battle to defend this right to abortion, a subject around which America has always been torn and which, following an explosive revelation on the intentions of the Supreme Court, stands out as a major issue in the legislative elections scheduled for November. The day after the extraordinary leak in the press of a draft decision of the high court, in which it dynamites the constitutional right to abortion guaranteed throughout the United States since 1973, the president called on his voters to “choose candidates favourable” to the right to abortion during the mid-term ballot.
New York “always there”
The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of this internal document, while emphasizing that it did not represent a “final” decision. According to this text, the highest court is preparing to overturn its historic “Roe versus Wade” judgment of 1973, guaranteeing women the constitutional right to abort even in the most conservative states, particularly in the south of the country.
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