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USA: Supreme Court overturns abortion rights?

2022-05-07T09:46:47.620Z


Will the Supreme Court overturn abortion rights? A corresponding draft law causes a stir in the USA. The effects could be even more far-reaching than meets the eye.


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Marc Pitzke, New York City:


Well, of course it did and it's a cliché, but it really hit like a bomb here.

The USA is in turmoil: thousands of people are taking to the streets.

Reason for this: on Monday evening the newspaper Politico published a draft of the US Supreme Court.

He suggests that the Supreme Court could overturn the fundamental right to an abortion.

Marc Pitzke, New York City:


It's natural for that to be leaked... It shows that there's a lot going on, that there's dissatisfaction in court.

Because someone had a reason to leak this.

Either the one side, the right, to substantiate this opinion a bit.

Or the left, to trigger a big uprising now, in order to prevent the possible verdict in June.

It is unclear who is responsible for the leak.

The United States is divided into two camps on the abortion issue.

However, the case law that has been in force since 1973, according to which women can decide for themselves whether to have an abortion, has been in question for some time - because conservative judges on the Supreme Court now have a majority of 6 to 3 over the liberals.

Marc Pitzke, New York City:


It wasn't actually a surprise, because the Court of Justice has been steering things in this direction for a long time, and the judiciary in general in the USA and of course the conservative politicians too, have been steering in this direction for a long time.

The ultimate goal has always been to abolish abortion rights.

Now not mandatory to ban abortion.

That's not the direct consequence.

Rather, the right, the basic right to an abortion, should be deleted again.

Then the states and no longer the government in Washington would decide on abortion rights.

Many women would then no longer be able to have legal abortions, for whatever reason.

But the impact could be much greater.

The largest LGBTQ organization in the USA, Human Rights Campaign, speaks of a dangerous moment:

Marc Pitzke, New York City:


The right to abortion is based on the right to privacy.

In the USA, to put it very simply, that means what you do at home in your private life, the state cannot interfere.

So and he says that doesn't apply to abortion now, we're repealing that, the right to privacy.

But that's exactly the same thing, the same basis that, for example, same-sex marriage has.

That's where they justified it.

That is the right to privacy.

What happens in your home doesn't interest the state.

He can't forbid anything.

So, if they now dig up this basis for abortion, then it is very obvious and many right-wing conservatives are also aiming for other rights to be eroded in the same way.

Same-sex marriage or even interracial marriage.

That's that horrible German word "Mischehe" which was only legalized in the 1960s, here in the US, between blacks and whites.

It is also based on this principle of privacy.

If that is now being questioned and up for debate, what else is up for debate?

The ban on same-sex marriage cannot happen overnight, says Pitzke, but it is definitely a possibility.

Marc Pitzke, New York City:


The irony is that on both abortion and same-sex marriage, the overwhelming majority of Americans, the citizens, are in favour.

That means the court and Republicans are in the minority in that opinion, but in the majority in the power to change it.

The decision that the US Supreme Court will ultimately make remains to be seen in June.

Source: spiegel

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