Kamala Harris steps up to defend abortion rights

Published on : 20/05/2022 – 07:46

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The annulment of the “Roe versus Wade” who had legalized abortion in 1973 would be a “ extreme step back “, declared Kamala Harris, the vice-president of the United States during a videoconference with medical actors while the Supreme Court seems determined to withdraw this constitutional right from American women.

With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson

On a giant screen facing the Vice-President of the United States appear two representatives of family planning and two gynecologists. They are on the front line in the war against women’s rights, says Kamala Harris.

And “ extreme step back »

One of them works in Texas, this state where Republicans have already virtually banned abortion. A taste of what awaits the United States as early as next month if the Supreme Court overturns the “Roe versus Wade”. It would be a “ extreme step back warns Kamala Harris from the White House: The strength of our country is to have always believed in the extension of rights. Not their restriction “, she says as well.

Kamala Harris, the first woman vice-president of the United States, has already denounced several times this internal document of the Supreme Court published in early May on the site Politico and showing that a majority of its judges are in favor of the cancellation of the judgment which had legalized abortion in 1973.

Other rights threatened?

Such a decision would also threaten other rights, according to Kamala Harris. ” At the root of the Roe decision is the right to privacy, she denounced. It is this same right that protects the right to contraception and the right to marry the person you love, including a person of the same sex. To cancel Roe is to make it possible to restrict these rights. »

But concretely, the White House has no option to save the right to abortion. Last week, Democrats were unable to vote a law protecting the right to abortion for lack of a sufficient majority.

► To listen: Decryption: Abortion under threat in the United States, what can the Democrats do?

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