It is a court decision with “potentially catastrophic, dangerous and unacceptable” consequences, condemns this Saturday the spokeswoman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre.
Arizona on Friday revived 19th-century legislation almost completely banning abortion, according to US media.
"If this decision is confirmed, health workers will face up to five years in prison if they fulfill their duty of care, survivors of rape and incest will be forced to bear the children of their attackers, and (pregnant) women with health problems would face terrible risks, ”assured Karine Jean-Pierre in a press release.
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Kellie Johnson, judge of Pima County in Arizona, indeed rendered a decision on Friday that caused a lot of noise in the United States: the magistrate based her judgment on a recent decision of the very conservative American Supreme Court, which dynamited at the end of June the right to abortion that its jurisprudence had guaranteed since 1973 throughout the United States.
The judge, she considered that the decision of the high court made a clean sweep, and returned the law in the matter to what it was before 1973.
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A text from 1864, even before Arizona joined the United States, brought back into force
This has the consequence, according to several American media, of bringing back into force extremely restrictive texts dating from 1864 and 1901. That is to say before American women had the right to vote and even before this State of the West officially joined the United States in 1912.
Several conservative US states have implemented total or partial abortion bans after the Supreme Court ruling.
Access to voluntary terminations of pregnancy, which has always been a politically hot topic, is at the center of the campaign for the legislative elections in November.
The Democratic Party, led by President Joe Biden, hopes to mobilize voters to defend access to abortion at the polls during the midterm elections in November, which will partially renew the Senate and completely renew the House of Representatives.