Ran Halevi is research director at the CNRS and professor at the Raymond Aron Center for Political Research.
Fifty years after pronouncing the constitutionality of the right to abortion, the Supreme Court of the United States has just declared it unconstitutional.
We might have expected it since the leak to the public of its preliminary version, this repeal which affects the lives of millions of people is producing a national earthquake.
It also risks radicalizing the mid-term electoral campaign and lastingly ruining the aura of impartiality, already somewhat tarnished, of the High Court.
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Samuel Alito, its editor, makes much of the silence of the Constitution on this subject.
The argument is specious.
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