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Abortion in Texas: Justice Department vows to protect clinics from attack

2021-09-06T21:19:16.224Z


The US Department of Justice promises to protect clinics and the women who attend them from possible violent attacks.


The US Department of Justice on Monday promised to protect, with the means of the federal state, the clinics performing abortions in Texas.

The Southern State has just adopted extremely restrictive legislation on the voluntary termination of pregnancy.

Entered into force last Tuesday, the "Senate Bill 8" prohibits Texans from aborting after a period of six weeks, an extremely short period of time that allows most abortions to be banned.

"It is a radical law which flagrantly violates the constitution", reacted in the wake of Joe Biden, promising to "defend the right to abortion" against the battering of pro-life activists.

Later, the American president asked the federal government to act to counter this law, which he considers to be liberticidal, while the Supreme Court has refused for the moment to take up the subject.

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Pending a legal decision, the justice ministry has promised that it will "provide support to federal law enforcement if a clinic performing abortions or a sexual and reproductive health center is attacked," said in a press release by Minister Merrick Garland.

No physical hindrance will be tolerated

Contacts have already been made with prosecutors and with the FBI offices in Texas, the minister said.

"We will not tolerate violence, physical hindrance or material harm against people seeking or providing contraceptive services," the statement continued.

The ministry invokes a law of 1994 (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or “FACE”), which prohibits any form of violence against the exercise of the right to abortion.

The Biden administration is also looking for ways to legally counter Texan law, which the US Supreme Court has refused to suspend, dealing a major blow to abortion rights.

Before Texas, a dozen other states, including Louisiana and Georgia, have also passed laws to ban abortions as soon as the fetal heartbeat is noticeable, around the sixth week of pregnancy, while many women are still unaware that they are pregnant.

These laws have all been overturned in court, because they violate the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the United States which recognized a right to abortion as long as the fetus is not viable, that is to say between 22 and 24 weeks of age. pregnancy.

But the highest American court, which Donald Trump firmly anchored in conservatism, signaled in mid-May that it could review this criterion of "viability" when considering a Mississippi law, which prohibits abortion in the - beyond 15 weeks.

Source: leparis

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