The American conservative right on Friday warmly welcomed the Supreme Court ruling which “throws into oblivion from history” the right to abortion, while the left and several organizations have on the contrary promised to continue to “fight” to defend it.
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“By returning the issue of abortion to the States and the people, the Supreme Court has corrected a historic error”, welcomed on Twitter former Vice President Mike Pence, who was the right arm of Donald Trump at the time. White House.
Now that the famous decision which guaranteed this right for nearly 50 years at the federal level has been “cast into the dustbin of history, a new arena is opening up”, added this Republican, a fervent evangelical Christian, who evokes “a second chance for life” and urges every state in the country to ban abortions.
The Pro-Life Campaign also called it “a momentous day for human rights.”
In a historic about-face, the very conservative Supreme Court of the United States, deeply overhauled by Donald Trump, buried on Friday a judgment which, for almost half a century, guaranteed the right of American women to abortion, but did not had never been accepted by the religious right.
This decision does not make terminations of pregnancy illegal, but returns the United States to the situation in force before the emblematic judgment “Roe v. Wade” of 1973, when each state was free to authorize them or not.
Even if this decision had been expected since May and an unprecedented leak in the press, the pro and anti camps immediately mobilized, like the often irreconcilable fractures that cross the United States.
“Today the Supreme Court not only overturned nearly 50 years of historic precedent, it also leaves the most personal decision to the will of politicians and ideologues,” former Democratic President Barack Obama said on Twitter. , accusing the high court of having “attacked the fundamental freedoms of millions of American women”.
“Today we are crying. Tomorrow, we fight,” added Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
The main American family planning organization has promised to continue to “fight” to restore this right, and to preserve it as much as possible at the local level.
“You’re probably feeling a lot of emotions – pain, anger, confusion. It’s okay, we are with you and we will never stop fighting for you,” Planned Parenthood tweeted.
Same message from the human rights organization Amnesty International, which calls for “action” to “protect the right to abortion in the United States”. “You are not free if you cannot decide your own future. Abortion is a human right,” she insisted.
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