Following revelations from
Politico
magazine on Monday, May 2, about a U.S. Supreme Court draft to strike down the landmark “Roe v.
Wade” of January 22, 1973 legalizing abortion in the country, many celebrities and political figures rose up.
The following day, on the talk show
The View
, 66-year-old actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg gave an impassioned speech, in which she called abortion a
"human issue"
in opposition to the
" human issue".
religious”
sometimes put forward.
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In this talk show, broadcast on ABC since 1997, Whoopi Goldberg, accompanied by three or four other hosts, deciphers the news for a female audience.
While the draft draft written by conservative judge Samuel Alito was discussed during the show on Tuesday, the host wanted to recall the reason why this law appeared in 1973:
“Women in this country have always lived illegally.
Women, when they decide something isn't right for them, they take matters into their own hands.
[...] Well, we got tired of tripping over women in bathrooms, public restrooms, having abortions because there was no safe place, no clean place, no place where to go.
This law came about because people wanted people to have a safe and clean place
,” she continues.
“Everyone tells me what to do.
But you don't let me make the decision about my body."
Herself forced to have an abortion in spartan conditions at the age of 14, Whoopi Goldberg recalls the difficulty of such a choice:
“It is not something that people do lightly!
It's not something you can do like that!
It's a difficult, terrible decision that people make.
A decision which, according to her, should not be dictated by anyone, with the exception of herself and her doctor:
“Everyone tells me what I have to do.
But you don't let me make the decision about my body
. "
In a book by Angela Bonavoglia,
The Choices We Made,
published in 1991, the actress had shared her intimate experience:
“I didn't speak to anyone.
I panicked.
I took hot baths.
I drank those weird concoctions the girls told me about […].
I fell violently ill.
At that time, I was more afraid of having to explain to someone what was wrong than going to the park with a coat hanger, which I did.
»
If the judgment “Roe v.
Wade” were to be repealed, the decision of abortion legislation would be up to the states.
Joy Behar, one of
The View
's co-hosts alongside Whoopi Goldberg said she was
"devastated"
by the
Politico
revelations .
According to her, such a decision could lead to others on homosexual marriage, for example, and
“lead to fascism”
.