"Stop the war against women"
: several thousand people flocked to New York on Tuesday evening to shout their
"anger"
against the intentions of the Supreme Court of the United States to break the constitutional right to abortion.
It was the very offensive Attorney General of the State of New York, the elected Democrat Letitia James, who sounded the general mobilization in front of thousands of women and men, rather young, gathered in force on a place of the south of Manhattan, home to the Federal Courthouse.
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In front of a human tide, Letitia James launched
“a call to action”
.
The draft decision of the Supreme Court is
"an alert and this is not the time to remain silent (...) We must get angry"
, harangued the magistrate, qualifying the defense of the right to the abortion of "one of the greatest battles to be waged".
“We won't go back, we won't go back to when we used coat hangers.
Never again !"
, she promised, judging that “the right to control (his) body was a fundamental right”.
In the crowd, many young women held up placards bearing slogans such as
"my body, my choice"
,
"abortion is a human right"
,
“stop the war against women”
or
“I will have less rights than my mother”
.
political battle
On Tuesday, Democratic President Joe Biden launched a major political battle to defend the right to abortion, a subject around which America has always been torn and which, following an explosive revelation about the Supreme Court's intentions, emerges as a major issue in the legislative elections scheduled for November.
The day after the extraordinary leak of a draft decision from the high court, in which it plans to blast the constitutional right to abortion guaranteed throughout the United States since 1973, the president called in a press release on voters to
"choose candidates in favor"
of the right to abortion during this mid-term election.
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The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of this internal document, published by the media Politico, while stressing that it did not represent a
“final”
decision .
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