What would be the consequences of Donald Trump's re-election in November on sexual and reproductive rights?
Questioned on this point during a trip to the UN in New York, Aurore Bergé, the French Minister for Gender Equality, denounced Tuesday evening the
“undermining work”
of the American right of the ex-president American
“against women’s rights”.
It is this work that she believes led to the Supreme Court overturning federal protection for abortion in 2022.
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“Unfortunately, the work of undermining has already been carried out in the
United States
.
I don’t know how he could go further
,” judged the minister.
“The very patient work on the renewal of the (judges) of the Supreme Court, this shadow work that the Republicans and the hardest among them carried out, led to there being a majority which he exercises against women's rights, against LGBT rights, against a certain number of fundamental freedoms.
“It’s obvious
,” she told a few journalists.
Roe vs. Wade decision
The French minister is leading a delegation of 80 people to the UN headquarters this week before the Commission on the Status of Women to
“bring”
“feminist diplomacy”
to the international community
and praise the inclusion of the right to abortion in the French Constitution, a world first.
“It is because there was the decision of the Supreme Court that we became aware of the absolute fragility of women's rights, of women's freedoms, in particular our main freedom to dispose of our body
,” explained Aurore Bergé.
In June 2022, the highest American court overturned its famous Roe vs. Wade ruling, half a century old, and thus annulled the federal guarantee for the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy.
Under the mandate of Donald Trump (2017-2021), the majority of the nine judges of the Supreme Court had shifted to the right thanks to the appointments he had decided.
Abortion is one of the major themes of the 2024 presidential campaign between the outgoing president, Democrat Joe Biden, and his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump.
During his State of the Union address on March 7, Joe Biden
"promised"
to
"restore"
-- if he is re-elected on November 5 and he has a Democratic majority Congress -- the right federal abortion.