Lto the Supreme Court of the United States is ready to overthrow the right to abortion established almost 50 years ago with the historic ruling Roe vs Wadewhich guarantees the constitutional protection of the termination of pregnancy.
Right to abortion in danger
The draft document containing the judges’ opinion was revealed by the American website Politico, who received a copy of the text drawn up last February by Judge Samuel Alito.
A revelation he made erupt a political and social earthquakevery clearly expressed by the barriers that the police have placed in front of the courthouse of the federal courthouse in Manhattan.
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Protests invade the streets
They serve a protect it from protests who began to invade the streets, after the invitation launched by the attorney general of the state of New York, Democrat Letitia James, to the mobilization of young women and men.
“We have to get angrySaid the magistrate. “The judgment of the Supreme Court is a wake-up call and we cannot remain silent.” Because “the defense of the right to abortion” is “one of the greatest battles to be fought. We will not go back to the time when we used hooks. Never again ”, she added, stating that“ the right to control one’s body is a fundamental right ”.
Right to abortion, what the court says
The whole affair begins last fall when the Supreme Court was called to judge the constitutional case filed by the Jackson Women’s Health Organization against the law passed in 2018 by the Republican-controlled Mississippi parliament.
The standard prohibits recourse to abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy. The Planned Parenthood v. Casey of 1972 establishes, however, that abortion is viable until the fetus is self-sufficientthat is, up to about seven months of pregnancy.
In the draft entitled “Opinion of the Court” released by Politico, the judges write that they believe that the “Roe vs Wade” should be canceled is that the sentence “was wrong from the start”because “the right to abortion does not exist in the Constitution. The citizens have to decidethrough political representatives at the state or federal level ”.
A draft is not yet final
The draft does not appear to be definitive and it may have changed again. But, as the official announcement is expected to arrive by the summer, it is speculated that someone passed the text to the press in order to obstruct it.
Also because if it were confirmed in these terms, the ruling of the Supreme Court would mark an epochal turning point, destined to last over the years.
The right to abortion, already affected in 22 states
The first practical consequence would be that the termination of pregnancy would become the legislative matter of the individual states, dividing the country even more. To today the states that have adopted very restrictive legislation, there are already 22 among them Texas and more recently Oklahoma.
This means that women would still have freedom of choice in Liberal states on both coasts, from California to New York.
Biden’s reaction was immediate. The president wanted to emphasize that «the Roe vs Wade ruling is based on a long series of precedents recognize the concept of personal freedom of the Fourteenth Amendment to the ConstitutionAnd that therefore “the fairness of our legal system it demands that it not be overturned“. But also that the White House legal offices are ready to respond to any ruling.
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