THE QUESTION.
“I am fighting for you,”
Donald Trump had launched to thousands of anti-abortion activists in the March for Life in January in Washington, becoming the first American president to participate.
Until now, the political and social battle linked to the voluntary termination of pregnancy had however been obscured in the campaign by the Covid-19 pandemic.
But the death of liberal judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who frees a seat on the Supreme Court, able to tip the institution on the conservative side, offers the
prolife
camp
a dream opportunity to reinvest the debates, in the home stretch before the presidential election.
The religious right has been campaigning for decades to restrict, and ideally abolish, the constitutional right to abortion in order to
"restore the integrity of the right to life"
.
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Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the Supreme Court becomes a major issue of the American campaign
Just hours after the announcement of the death of
"RBG"
on September 18, the anti-abortion organization Susan B. Anthony List, a major backer of the Republican campaign,
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