The fight for abortion is “not over yet,” Joe Biden assured Sunday, exactly 50 years to the day after a famous Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing access to abortion across the United States, but overturned last June would.
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“Today should mark the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade,” the jurisdiction that guaranteed abortion rights across the United States for decades, the Democratic president said in a tweet.
Instead, Republican “MAGA” officials (ie, acquired through former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again program, ed.) went to war on women’s right to make decisions about their own health ‘ denounced Joe Biden.
“I have always fought and will always fight to protect women’s reproductive rights,” affirmed the President, who has scant institutional resources on the issue.
Last June, the highest American court blew up this case law, since the right to voluntary abortion was not protected by the constitution.
The Supreme Court, which Donald Trump gave a very conservative composition, has thus allowed around twenty Republican-governed states to ban or severely restrict access to abortion.
In his tweets on Sunday, Joe Biden insists that “women’s suffrage is non-negotiable” and urges Congress to pass legislation amending the terms of the Roe v. Wade” by imposing himself on the conservative states.
But the 80-year-old Democrat has no chance of being heard: one of the two chambers of Congress, the House of Representatives, has just passed into the hands of the conservatives.
Since June 2022, the President has had to be content with issuing decrees with limited scope.
Also on Sunday Vice President Kamala Harris is due to speak in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade,” a new salvo of regulatory action.
The White House this time wants to protect access to mifepristone-based pills (or RU 486), which can terminate a pregnancy in the first few weeks.
Abortion rights activists also announced Sunday rallies in several cities across the United States to mark the anniversary.