Arkansas is relaunching the US conservative offensive against abortion rights.
This southern state of the United States adopted a law on Tuesday banning abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
The objective of its governor: to push the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse its judgment, which in 1973 had extended this right to the whole country.
The only exception provided for in the text promulgated in this state, bordered by the Mississippi and known for its Christian conservatism, is to "save the life of the mother during a medical emergency," announced its governor, Asa Hutchinson.
He said he ratified the law because of his "sincere beliefs" against abortion.
The text should not come into force before the summer, and the powerful civil rights organization ACLU has already announced that it will challenge it in court.
The Supreme Court firmly anchored to the right
Abortion still strongly divides the American population, with opposition still very strong, especially in religious circles.
For the past twenty years, the states of the south and the center of the country have increased the number of restrictive laws on abortion, for example imposing a width for the corridors leading to operating theaters, forcing many clinics to close their doors.
With this law in Arkansas, opponents of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) hope to push for a reversal of the United States Supreme Court which, in 1973, declared that American women had a right to abort.
Such a turnaround would allow each state to do what it wants and would further increase territorial inequalities.
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"The purpose of this law is to prepare the ground for the Supreme Court to overturn current case law," the governor of Arkansas said bluntly in a statement.
The temple of American law has been firmly anchored to the right since the appointment by Donald Trump of a conservative judge, a few days before his defeat in the presidential election.