“We will not go back,” chanted tens of thousands of Americans in marches organized across the country.
From Phoenix to Los Angeles, via Portland, New York or Washington DC, pro-abortion marches have multiplied since the publication of a draft decision from the US Supreme Court.
In this 98-page memo which leaked Monday evening in the columns of the Politico media, the imminent end of legal abortion guaranteed by the constitution on the whole territory takes shape.
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“We won't go back, we won't go back to when we used coat hangers.
Never again !
“, was offended Leticia James, Attorney General of the State of New York.
“An extremist five-person United States Supreme Court thinks they can dictate to tens of millions of women across this country the decisions that are our decisions about our lives.
That's what they think, well they're wrong, ”defended Elizabeth Warren, Democratic senator and former primary candidate against Joe Biden.
Around her, more than a thousand demonstrators marched throughout the day in front of the Supreme Court in Washington to shout their anger: "abortion is a right", "abortion is part of the right to health ".
The US High Court is expected to issue its final opinion by June 30.
But several local jurisdictions did not wait for final arbitration to carve out more restrictive legislation.
Oklahoma has already announced through the voice of its Republican governor that it has signed a law on Tuesday banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, one of the toughest in the country.