In France, abortion has been legal since the Veil law of 1975. In the United States, since the historic Roe c. Wade of the Supreme Court in 1973, abortion is legal and falls under the Fourth Amendment and privacy. But the opponents of abortion have since stopped trying to repeal this law.
Women who have abortions accused of murder
A few months ago, an anti-abortion bill in Ohio shocked abortion rights advocates around the world. This new bill that has just been made in Arizona risks meeting the same fate.
Walter Blackman, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives has made a bill to change the state’s law on the definition of murder. In many speeches, he qualifies the centers performing abortions “factories of death”.
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The member of the Republican Party wants that from now on, any person having taken the life to be regarded as a murderer, and to include in this definition the women who have recourse to the abortion and the medical personnel carrying out the abortions. The text also specifies that this is valid regardless of the stage of pregnancy, and regardless of whether the pregnancy results from incest or rape, or if it endangers the life of the mother.
The death penalty for an abortion?
Arizona is not the first state to want to change the law to prevent women from having an abortion. A similar bill was made in Mississippi recently, and angered women’s rights groups across the country.
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But if this law were to be passed in Arizona, it would have dire consequences for women who have had an abortion, as well as for their doctors. Indeed in Arizona, first degree murder is severely punished by law. Those found guilty by a court risk the death penalty.
Representatives of the Democratic Party in Arizona immediately spoke out to denounce this revolting bill, and even more 48 years to the day after the enactment of the law legalizing abortion in the country.
The right to abortion in the USA
In almost every state, the right to abortion is called into question. On the one hand by the closure of centers performing abortions, forcing women to travel hundreds of kilometers. In Mississippi, there is only one center located in Jackson.
On the other hand, through freedom-killing bills. In Indiana, women who want an abortion must now have an ultrasound within 18 hours of the procedure. One way to put psychological pressure on women.
In Kansas, South Carolina, Alabama, New Hampshire, or even in Ohio, political representatives are trying to limit the right to abortion.
Women’s rights to abortion and contraception have declined year after year under the Trump administration. Representatives of “pro choice” associations hope that the arrival of Joe Biden to power will reverse the trend.
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