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It ignites again in the Use the battle on the right to abortionwith political and social effects destined to mark the election campaign for the Midterm elections but also the next presidential elections in 2024
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With a scoop, Politico has published a first draft of the reasons with which five of the nine Supreme Court justices are preparing to cancel ‘Roe v. Wade ‘, the historic ruling of the same court that in 1973 sanctioned the right to terminate pregnancy for all American women, without however ever becoming a law
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On the leak, the president of the highest US judicial body, John Roberts (pictured), ordered an investigation, calling it a “unique and glaring breach of trust” and “an affront to court.” While confirming the authenticity of the document, Roberts wanted to clarify that it “does not represent a decision of the Court or its final position and that of its members on the case”. But the orientation of the majority of the sages seems clear
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THE 1973 JUDGMENT – On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled that a woman had the right to have an abortion “without excessive government restrictions.” An epochal sentence the ‘Roe v. Wade ‘who changed the course of civil rights history in the United States
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The forerunner was the 22-year-old Norma McCorvey who, under the pseudonym of Jane Roe, in 1970 desperate for an unwanted third pregnancy, victim of poverty and drugs, sued the prosecutor of the Texas, where abortion was illegal, Henry Wade. After a three-year battle led by her lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, Norma obtained the right to terminate the pregnancy with 7 votes to two, becoming a symbol for all women
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The Supreme Court did not legalize abortion per se, but decided that the right to terminate pregnancy was part of those rights to privacy guaranteed by the 14th amendment, pointing out that it is not an “absolute” but must be balanced by governments with rules that “protect the health of women and the fetus”. Norma died in 2017 in a nursing home in Texas after she had to give birth to the baby she didn’t want in the 1970s.
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The judge Harry Blackmun argued that denying access to abortion causes harm that includes the threat to women’s physical and mental health, financial costs and social stigma. “So we conclude that the right to personal privacy includes the decision to abort“, He wrote arguing that this right must” prevail over the regulatory interests of the States ”
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THE JUDGMENT OF 1992 – The subsequent 1992 decision (Planned Parenthood v. Casey) also retained that right. The ruling states that states cannot apply restrictions on abortion that would create an “undue burden” on individual women who resort to termination of pregnancy
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Over 50 million abortions have been performed in the US in recent decades, but recently, with a peak during the presidency of Donald Trumpthe States that have circumvented the sentence imposing severe restrictions on termination of pregnancy. I’m 26 in totalwith Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi having decided the more restrictive rules
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Nine states have abortion limits that precede the ‘Roe v. Wade ‘, and which have not yet been enforced but which could become effective if the Supreme Court were to overturn it and 13 have so-called ‘dormant bans’ which would enter into force immediately after a possible decision of the wise men
Source-tg24.sky.it