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United States: abortion rights defenders call on Americans to demonstrate en masse on May 14

2022-05-05T22:39:58.382Z


The Politico site caused a political explosion on Monday evening by publishing a draft judgment of the Supreme Court which, if adopted in l


“We are taking action”.

Several major progressive organizations on Thursday called on Americans to march en masse on May 14 across the United States to defend the right to abortion, which the Supreme Court seems ready to blast.

"It's time to redouble our efforts", "there is no time to lose", declared during a telephone press conference Kelley Robinson, an official of the group Planned Parenthood, which manages many clinics performing abortions in the country.

"On May 14, we will express our rage," she said.

On that day, four large marches will be organized in Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

And hundreds of rallies will dot the rest of the country.

“We are expecting hundreds of thousands of people.

Other actions will take place in the process.

"It will be a summer of anger," said Rachel Carmona, whose Women's March organization brought together millions of opponents of Donald Trump in 2017 for a first "Women's March".

The Politico site caused a political explosion on Monday evening by publishing a draft Supreme Court ruling which, if adopted as it stands, will send the United States back 50 years, when each state was free to prohibit or allow abortions.

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Nothing in the Constitution protects the right to abortion

This document, written in February and which can be the subject of negotiations until June 30, considers that the judgment “Roe v.

Wade” of 1973, which protects the right of American women to terminate their pregnancies, was “unfounded from the start” and that nothing in the Constitution protects the right to abortion.

These revelations appalled the American left: hundreds of people marched spontaneously in front of the Supreme Court, the elected Democrats in Congress gave their voices and President Joe Biden called on voters to defend the right to abortion during the elections. November legislative.

“We see an energy that we had not seen until then”, assured Rahna Epting, director of the progressive association MoveOn, accusing the Republicans of having orchestrated this decline by appointing conservative judges to the Supreme Court. .

“Our message to Republicans is clear: you'll see us on the streets in May, you'll see us on the streets in June, and you'll see us at the polls in November!

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Source: leparis

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