His speech was expected.
The American president reacted to the decision of the American Supreme Court, which decided to revoke the right to abortion in the United States.
"It's a sad day for the country," lamented Joe Biden, who fears "for the health and lives of women".
“The health and lives of women in this country are now at risk.
This right was so important to so many Americans and they did it,” lamented the Democratic president, for whom “the Court criminalized abortion.”
In a historic about-face, the very conservative Supreme Court on Friday buried a judgment which, for nearly half a century, has recognized the right to abortion in the United States.
This decision does not make terminations of pregnancy illegal but returns the United States to the situation in force before the emblematic decision “Roe v.
Wade” from 1973, when each state was free to authorize them or not.
Given the fractures in the country, half of the states, especially in the more conservative and religious south and centre, could banish them in the more or less short term.
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