“Stop the war on women”: several thousand people flocked to New York on Tuesday evening to shout their “anger” against the intentions of the Supreme Court of the United States to break the constitutional right to abortion.
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It was the very offensive Attorney General of the State of New York, the elected Democrat Letitia James, who sounded the general mobilization in front of thousands of women and men, rather young, gathered in force in a square to the south of Manhattan, home to the Federal Courthouse.
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In front of a human tide, Ms. James launched “a call to action”.
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Supreme Court’s draft ruling is ‘a wake-up call and now is not the time to remain silent’ […] We must get angry,” harangued the magistrate, calling the defense of the right to abortion “one of the biggest fights 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 [son] body was a fundamental right.
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In the crowd, many young women held up placards bearing slogans such as “my body, my choice”, “abortion is a human right”, “stop the war against women” or “I will have less rights than my mother”.
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On Tuesday, Democratic President Joe Biden launched a major political battle to defend the right to abortion, a subject around which America has always been torn and which, following an explosive revelation about the Supreme Court’s intentions, stands out as a major issue in the legislative elections scheduled for November.
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The day after the extraordinary leak of a draft decision from the high court, in which it dynamites the constitutional right to abortion guaranteed throughout the United States since 1973, the president called, in a press release, on voters to “choose candidates in favor” of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) during this mid-term election.
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The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of this internal document, published by the media Politico, while emphasizing that it did not represent a “final” decision.
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