The offensive against abortion in the United States advances with a new restrictive law in Florida

The right of women to have an abortion took a new step back in the United States on Thursday.

The governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis, signed the new law that prohibits it from 15 weeks of pregnancy -compared to 24 weeks of the current limit- and does not contemplate exceptions for those who have become pregnant as a result of rape. , incest or human trafficking.

With the new rule, which will come into force on July 1, this important state, the third most populous in the country, joins the wave of anti-abortion regulations in the conservative territories.

The only exemptions allowed by the legislation are that the life of the mother is in danger or serious damage, or that the fetus has a fatal malformation.

In both cases, there are two doctors who must certify this circumstance.

"This is going to mean the greatest protection of life that has been approved by this State in a generation," Governor DeSantis, a rising star of the Republican Party who has centered his political doctrine and Florida has been declared the “freest” state in the US.

The Supreme Court, the country's highest judicial authority and arbiter of many of the disputes that have shaped society, established in 1973 that women had the right to abort -within 22 to 24 weeks- in 1973 as a result of the historic Roe v. Wade case.

Since then, the conservative states have tried to reverse this principle through their own legislation, which has fallen flat in the face of justice.

In recent years, however, the offensive has redoubled.

Texas has promoted legislation that prohibits it after six weeks (when it is considered that a heartbeat can be heard), Oklahoma has just signed one that makes it a crime in all cases, except for a health emergency.

Alabama, Iowa or Arizona have also established new limitations on reproductive freedom.

But it has been Mississippi, with its 15-week ban, which has managed to take the matter to the Supreme Court.

Half a century later, it is about to rule on a right that seemed guaranteed.

The conservative supermajority that reached this body during the presidency of Donald Trump - of six judges against the three considered liberals - and the interventions of the magistrates during the oral presentation of the arguments on December 1 indicated that the southern territory had the gain.

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