an hour agoUS Supreme Court abolished abortion rights
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(4 years ago)The Supreme Court of the United States (SHBA) on Friday, June 24th, announced the verdict, which ended the semi-year-old right of abortion, the AP reported. A court dominated by conservatives overturned the “Roe verdict against Wade” of 1973, which guaranteed that right. Six judges voted “for” and three “against”. Court [...]
A court dominated by conservatives overturned the “Role verdict against Wade” of 1973, which guaranteed that right.
Six judges voted “for” and three “against”.
The court said that abortion is not banned, but now some states may allow or limit abortion.
The constitution does not give abortion permission. Roe and Casey were canceled, while the power to regulate the abortion was returned to the people and their elected representatives”, says part of the court-declared decision.
Judge Claire Thomas, who is considered the most conservative member of the Supreme Court, wrote an additional opinion voting in favour of revote of the right to abortion.
Thomas goes further and asks the judge to review “three previous Supreme Court rulings.
He's looking for a review of the “Griswold” issue, which defends the right to contraception, law “Lawrence”, which abolished laws against Sodom and law “Obergefell”, which legalized same-sex marriages throughout the country.
In the “Role case against Wade” in 1973, the Supreme Court ruled by seven votes “for” and two “against” that the woman's right to abortion was protected by the American Constitution.
That judicial ruling gave American women the absolute right to abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, but allowed restrictions in the second quarter and third quarter bans.
The court has so far allowed federal states to regulate, but not prevent abortion.
Half of American states are expected to impose new restrictions or bans, and millions of US women will lose their former legal right, the BBC writes.
Thirteen of them have already passed laws that will automatically prohibit abortion following a Supreme Court ruling. These are Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.
Many other US states are likely to impose new restrictions soon.
Shortly after the verdict, Missouri State Prosecutor Eric Schmitt issued an opinion initiating a state law against abortion, which prohibits procedures, except in emergencies.
According to Planned Parenthood Research, the health organization that offers abortions, the access to abortion is generally expected to stop for some 36 million women at a reproductive age.
Representatives of the Democratic Party tried to pass a law in the American Senate and reduce the damage if the Supreme Court abolishs the right to abortion, but it was refused because of opposition by Republican Party representatives.
The last decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was made on the “Dobbs case against Jackson Women's Health Organization”, in which an abortion clinic in Mississippi rejected state attempts to prevent abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
House of Representatives head and Democrat MP Nancy Pelosi called today's decision a “dark and extreme purpose of the Republican Party to deprive women of the right to make their own decisions on reproductive health”.
Pelosi blamed “Donald Trumpin, Mitch McConnelin, Republican Party and most of it at the Supreme Court” that American women have given “less freedom than their mothers”.
The US vice president, Mike Pence, praised today's decision, saying that <x0).
When we have won this second case for life, we dare not rest and dare not give up until the sanctity of life becomes the center of American law, in every state of the country”, he stressed.
