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United States: a cancellation of the right to abortion would go "against opinion"
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A crowd of people demonstrate outside the Supreme Court, early Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington.
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By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikael Ponge Follow
3 mins
“
A bombshell
” say the Americans.
A political bomb fell in Washington.
According to leaked documents obtained by the Politico website, the Supreme Court of the United States is on the verge of overturning a historic judgment recognizing for nearly half a century the right to abortion in the country.
Joe Biden calls on Americans to defend the right to abortion.
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Politico
relies on an unprecedented leak of documents.
In an article published on Monday May 2, 2022, the newspaper indicates that it has obtained the preliminary draft of a majority decision written by conservative judge Samuel Alito and dated February 10.
An unprecedented leak, "unheard
of
", notes our guest historian
Corentin Sellin
, a specialist in the United States who believes that this leak "
was undoubtedly orchestrated to change the mind of one of the five conservative judges who already voted for a reversal
” of this Roe vs. Wade judgment which guarantees the right to abortion at the federal level.
If this decision is upheld,
it would mean that overnight, the 50 states would be sovereign in their territory to legalize or prohibit abortion
”.
It is in any case, today, "
the sign of the additional shift to the right of the Court, in addition to the quantitative increase in the number of judges appointed by President Trump
".
Corentin Sellin also stresses that this decision would go “
against the grain of public opinion in the United States.
Two-thirds of Americans refuse to see this Roe case overturned, so it is extremely rare to see a Supreme Court go against a clear majority of the population.
".
This May 3, Joe Biden is launching a major political battle for abortion, the president directly calling on Americans to defend abortion at the polls in the next midterm elections in November 2022.
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Haiti: the call for help from the inhabitants of the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac
For ten days, they have been living cloistered, fear in their stomachs to the rhythm of bursts of fire.
The inhabitants of the Cul-de-Sac plain, northeast of Port-au-Prince are still hostages to the war between two rival gangs for control of the area, the 400 Mawozo and Chen Mechan.
“
We have no way out, we have no way to escape.
Everyone stays at home.
There's heavy fire again this morning.
No one is immune.
I appeal to the national and international authorities to protect us
“Explains a resident who prefers to remain anonymous.
1,189 people, or 230 displaced families from Croix-des-Bouquets, Santo, Butte Boyer, have settled in two sites in Tabarre.
200 hot dishes will be distributed to these families in difficulty, thanks to funding from the World Food Programme, explains Goston Pierre, the editor-in-chief of the AlterPresse site.
Faced with the silence of the national authorities, the Protection Office denounces the inaction of the public authorities.
No second union at Amazon in Staten Island
Despite a first victory in early April 2022, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) did not repeat the feat.
Employees of the LDJ5 sorting center on Staten Island in New York voted overwhelmingly against the arrival of the organization on their site.
Disappointed but combative, Christian Smalls, the president of the ALU, denounces the efforts and the millions of dollars deployed by Amazon to dissuade employees from voting in favor of unionization: “
They brought in a lot of directors from different institutions.
They intimidated them using the police.
Every time I went to the site, I was threatened at least four or five times by the police.
What we can do in this case is to continue to organize ourselves.
And I think by what we specifically do here in New York is going to change the course of what the labor movement will be in the future
,” he said.
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