Joe Biden called on Americans on Tuesday, May 3 to vote in the fall legislative elections in order to defend the “
fundamental
” right to abortion, if it were to be challenged by the American Supreme Court.
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If the highest court strikes down the case law that has founded abortion rights in the United States since the 1970s, as a document revealed by
Politico
suggests , "
it will be up to our nation's elected officials, at all levels, to protect women's right to choose.
And it will be up to the voters to choose candidates favorable
“to the right to abortion in November, estimated the Democratic president in a press release.
A political explosion
“
We will need more senators in favor of the right to choose, and a majority in this direction in the House of Representatives, to pass legislation codifying (existing jurisprudence), which I will enact
”, assured the leader of the executive, fervent Catholic but also defender of the right to abortion.
Joe Biden, whose party fears a bitter defeat in these mid-term elections, also promises that his administration “
will be ready
” to react when the extremely awaited decision of the American Supreme Court falls.
The president evokes in his press release an “ administrative
” response
, without further details.
The Democrats already control the House of Representatives and the Senate, but their majority in the latter institution is very slim, and has not allowed them so far to legislate at the federal level on the right to abortion, to crush extremely restrictive measures taken recently by a number of conservative American states.
The Politico site, based on an unprecedented leak of a draft decision, caused a political explosion on Monday evening by revealing that the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v.
Wade of 1973, which founded the right of women to terminate a pregnancy in the United States.
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The supreme court, remodeled by former President Donald Trump to give it a very conservative composition, would therefore return the United States to the situation before 1973, namely that each state would be free to authorize or prohibit abortion.
The right to voluntary termination of pregnancy is an extremely strong political marker for Americans and their political leaders.
Politico's revelation aroused the indignation of the Democratic camp, and the enthusiasm of many elected Republicans.
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