Joe Biden promised on Wednesday March 8 to "
support the rights of women and girls in all aspects of our domestic and foreign policy
", without specifically mentioning the crucial issue of the right to abortion in the United States.
International Women's Day “
honors a truth we experience every day: women and girls are essential to success and progress in all aspects of our societies
,” the US president wrote to the occasion of March 8.
"Use of rape as a weapon of war"
“
In too many parts of the world, the rights of women and girls are under attack
,” he laments, mentioning Afghanistan, Iran and “
the use of rape as a weapon of war
” by the Russian army in Ukraine.
The Treasury Department announced on Wednesday new sanctions against entities and individuals in Iran, including two officials of the Iranian prison system, accused of human rights violations against women and girls in this country which is experiencing a protest movement. unprecedented.
Joe Biden also undertakes to work "
everywhere in the world
" to "
defend access to health, including with regard to reproduction
" and to "
preserve the political participation of women
".
With regard to his own country, the American president does not explicitly cite the right to abortion, threatened since the Supreme Court undermined its constitutional anchoring, which led many States to restrict or simply suppress the access to abortion.
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Biden, on the other hand, mentions the “
investments
” made in the United States in favor of families and working women and a law intended to combat domestic violence.
The 80-year-old Democrat, for lack of a majority in Congress, has in fact no means of countering the initiatives of the conservatives against the right to abortion.
On Tuesday, Florida introduced a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks, while access for all American women to abortion pills, used in the vast majority of pregnancy terminations in the United States, is currently suspended at the decision of a Texas judge.