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This weekend, walking through Madrid, I saw an advertisement for a University that said: “More

and less

”.

I do not militate nostalgia, but I believe that only knowing the past can one live a present without naivety (without believing that the world began with one), and see, with some precision, the monstrosities that the serpent's egg contains.

On Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court of the United States annulled a judicial precedent that, for 49 years, allowed women in that country to abort safely.

When I found out, I went for a walk full of fury until, suddenly, I felt afraid.

Because I remembered that on June 23 the Polish Parliament rejected the bill to legalize abortion, which, since October 2020, when that country declared interventions carried out in cases of irreversible disorders of the fetus unconstitutional (97% were caused by that reason), is, in practice, absolutely prohibited.

Because I remembered that

When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August 2021, they assured that they would respect the labor and social rights of women, and yet on May 7 of this year they gave the formal directive that all women must cover their faces in public. and stay at home, going out only in cases of need.

The decision of the Supreme is not produced by spontaneous generation or in a vacuum.

It occurs in a context in which the rights of women have gone back two decades due to the pandemic, and it is the legacy of a past that does not cease: three of the judges who voted in favor of annulling that right were placed in their positions by then President Donald Trump who, already in 2016 and during his campaign, proposed punishing women who abort and nullifying the law.

The majority of the Supreme Court judges —six— are now conservatives.

And their charges are for life.

Isn't it to be afraid?

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