US President Joe Biden said Tuesday (3) that “women’s right to vote” must be guaranteed if the country’s Supreme Court overturns the law allowing legal abortions.
On Monday, the Politico website obtained an early, unreleased version of a draft report showing that US Supreme Court justices reluctantly voted to overturn the 1970s decision restricting access to abortion in the United States guaranteed land.
1 in 1 protests take place in front of the US Supreme Court. — Photo: Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS
Protests are taking place in front of the US Supreme Court. — Photo: Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS
The measure is historically known as “Roe v. Wade,” referring to the alias of the plaintiff, a pregnant single mother, and the prosecutor she was fighting.
“I believe that a woman’s right to choose (whether or not to continue a pregnancy) is fundamental,” the US President said in a statement. “My administration has always argued strongly in defense of the Roe vs. Wade decision.”
Biden called for the maintenance of the “Roe v. Wade,” warning the Supreme Court that otherwise he would “abandon voters.”
Biden said he doesn’t yet know if the leaked draft is “genuine” or reflects the Supreme Court’s final decision, and that “fundamental justice” requires that the current abortion ruling not be reversed.
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The as “Roe v. Wade” wellknown decision was made by the Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, and found that the right to respect for private life guaranteed by the Constitution also applies to abortion.
In a lawsuit filed three years earlier in a Texas court, Jane Roe, aka Norma McCorvey, a single mother pregnant with her third child, challenged the constitutionality of Texas law making abortion a crime.
Months later, the nation’s highest court took over the matter, in an appeal by Jane Roe against Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, but also in another by a doctor and a childless couple who wanted to practice voluntary termination or make the pregnancy legal .
After hearing the parties twice, the Supreme Court, by a vote of seven to two, awaited the November 1972 presidential election and Republican Richard Nixon’s reelection to make its decision.
Recognizing the “sensitive and emotional nature of the abortion debate, the diametrically opposed views, including among physicians, and the deep and absolute convictions the issue inspires,” the Supreme Court eventually overturned Texas’ abortion laws.