“The battle is not over … Congress must act” – US president says poorest women will suffer worst – Abortion right abolished after half a century
“Sad day for the Court and for the country that deprived the Americans of their constitutional right” described the decision of the US Supreme Court for abortions. Joe Biden. The US Supreme Court ruling overturned the historic Rowe v. Wade ruling, declaring that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to abortion. The US president had demanded that Rowe not be overthrown against Wade, as had Vice President Kamala Harris.
The US president said that the “health and life” of women in the US “are now in danger”, while the poorest women will suffer the worst.
“The battle is not over,” the US president said. “My government will use all its appropriate legal powers. “Congress must act and with your vote you can act,” Biden said. “You can have the last word. This is not over, “he said, addressing the people.
“Make no mistake, this decision is the culmination of decades of deliberate efforts to upset the balance of our law,” Biden said.
“It is an awareness of an extreme ideology and a tragic mistake of the Supreme Court in my view,” he said, noting that Donald Trump’s predecessor changed the composition of the Supreme Court to three judges of his choice.
“The court has done what it has not done before, it explicitly removes a constitutional right that is so fundamental to so many Americans. “The court’s decision to do so will have real and immediate consequences,” he said.
“I think Rowe vs. Wade was the right decision,” he said. The decision of the Supreme Court “turns literally America 150 years ago “said President Biden.
“Let me be very clear. The only way we can secure a woman’s right to vote … is for Congress to restore Rowe’s protection against Wade as a federal law. “No executive action by the president can do that,” he clarified.
“And if Congress does not seem to have the votes to do that now, voters need to make their voices heard. “This fall, you need to elect more senators and representatives who will allow a woman’s right to re-elect to federal law,” Biden added.
The American president asked for no violence due to the decision of the Supreme Court. “I call on everyone, no matter how deeply they are interested in this decision, to keep all demonstrations peaceful – peaceful, peaceful, peaceful. No bullying. “Violence is never acceptable,” he said.
President Biden said his government would protect the “fundamental right” of women to travel from states that ban abortions to those that allow them, and also pledged to protect women’s access to medicine.
“So for a woman living in a state that restricts abortions, the decision of the Supreme Court does not prevent her from traveling from her home country to the state that allows it. It does not prevent a doctor in this state from treating her. “The justice minister has made it clear that women must remain free to travel safely to another state to seek the care they need.”
“If any state or local official – high or low – tries to intervene in a woman exercising her basic right to travel, I will do everything in my power to combat this deep-seated anti-American attack,” he warned.
It also pledged to protect women’s access to FDA-approved drugs and contraception.
Some states say they will “try to ban or severely restrict access to these drugs,” Biden said, adding that “extremist governors and state lawmakers are trying to block mail or search a person’s medicine cabinet.” they are “wrong and extreme and out of touch with the majority of Americans.”
Biden also warned that health organizations have said that “by restricting access to these drugs, maternal mortality will grow in America». He also assured that the Ministry of Health and Human Services will ensure that medicines are available “as much as possible”.
A group of high-ranking White House officials has been preparing for months to respond to the Supreme Court ruling, which it had discounted. However, the American president can not restore the nationwide right to abortion.
The court, by a 6-3 majority, upheld a Republican-backed law in the state of Mississippi that prohibits abortions after a 15-week period. The vote to overthrow Rowe it was 5-4, with Supreme Court Justice John Roberts disagreeing, saying he would have supported Mississippi law but would not have taken the extra step of repealing the previous law.
The decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn the historic constitutional decision (Row v. Wade), declaring that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to abortion, was strongly criticized by US President Barack and Michelle Obama.
For her part, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said that the “tough decision” of the Supreme Court is outrageous and heartbreaking.
“Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved the Republican Party’s dark and extreme goal of depriving women of the right to make their own reproductive health decisions. “Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party and their majority in the Supreme Court, American women now have less freedom than their mothers,” Pelosi said in a statement.
The Speaker of Parliament promised that the Democrats will continue to fight to “secure Row v. Wade in law. ” “This tough decision is outrageous and heartbreaking. But make no mistake: the rights of women and all Americans are in this November’s vote, “she said.
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