The thunderclap caused a reaction.
The decision of the American Supreme Court, which decided to revoke the right to abortion in the United States, which has the immediate consequence that the States are now free to prohibit it, has been widely commented on in America.
Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of previous, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 24, 2022
Barack Obama accused the Supreme Court of having "attacked the fundamental freedoms of millions of American women".
“Today the Supreme Court not only overturned nearly 50 years of historic precedent, it also left the most personal decision to the will of politicians and ideologues,” the former Democratic president almost immediately reacted on Twitter. .
“We will never stop fighting”
On the Republican side, the decision was well received.
The cancellation of the right to abortion decided by the United States Supreme Court responds to "God's will", declared former US President Donald Trump on Fox News.
The decision "follows the Constitution", and "brings everything back to the state level, which should always have been the case", he added.
Former Republican Vice-President Mike Pence hailed the Supreme Court's decision on Friday, which revokes the right to abortion "thrown into the dustbin of history".
"By returning the issue of abortion to the States and the people, the Supreme Court has repaired a historic error", welcomed on Twitter this devout evangelical Christian, who was Donald Trump's right arm in the White House.
“You probably feel a lot of emotions, pain, anger, confusion.
It's okay, we are with you and we will never stop fighting for you,” tweeted Planned Parenthood, America's leading family planning organization.
“The news from the United States is horrible”
“The news from the United States is horrible.
My heart goes out to the millions of American women who will lose their legal right to abortion,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted.
According to him, “no government, no politician, no man (should) dictate to a woman what she can or cannot do with her body”.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lamented on Friday the “great step backwards” that he believes the decision of the American Supreme Court to reverse the right to abortion represents.
This decision has a “major impact on what people think”, said the head of the British government at the Commonwealth summit in Kigali in Rwanda, who “always believed in the right of women to choose”.
Half of the states could ban abortion
In a historic about-face, the ultra-conservative U.S. Supreme Court on Friday buried a ruling that for nearly half a century had guaranteed American women's right to abortion but had never been accepted by the religious right. .
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This decision does not make terminations of pregnancy illegal but returns the United States to the situation in force before the emblematic decision “Roe v.
Wade” from 1973, when each state was free to authorize them or not.
Given the fractures in the country, half of the states, especially in the more conservative and religious south and centre, could banish them in the more or less short term.