In twenty years, it has therefore gone from “pro-choice” to “pro-life”. Eyes riveted on the November election, Donald Trump participated in Washington on Friday in the annual high mass of anti-abortion activists, denouncing the "radical" positions of his democratic opponents on this very divisive subject in the United States. “It is a great honor for me to be the first President in history to participate in the March for Life! "Launched the Republican billionaire in front of a conquered crowd gathered on the huge lawns of the" National Mall ".
At the same time, a few hundred meters away, within the confines of the Congress, the senators continued their debates in his dismissal trial. "They are attacking me because I am fighting for you," he launched in an allusion to this procedure which will leave, whatever its outcome, an indelible stain on his mandate.
The republican billionaire who, in 1999, said he was very "pro-choice" (favorable to the possibility of choosing abortion), is now more than ever determined to position himself as the most "pro-life" president of the History.
"A sacred gift from God"
Denouncing, in a speech with the overtures of campaign rallies, the "most extreme and most radical" positions of his adversaries, he attacked the "extreme left" with virulence and multiplied the tributes to "millions extraordinary women across America "fighting for" the right to life ".
"Every child is a sacred gift from God," the former New York businessman added to protesters with crucifixes or placards. "Human rights start in the womb."
In its 47 years of existence, the "March for Life" had never welcomed an American president. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of "Susan B. Anthony List", a powerful anti-abortion organization, sees this as a real "turning point". The demonstration is organized every year around January 22, the anniversary of the emblematic decision of the Supreme Court “Roe v. Wade ”, rendered in 1973, and legalizing the voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in all the United States.
Supreme Court test in March
Approaching the November 3 poll, where he will run for a second term, Donald Trump, who has never sought to widen his electoral base, knows that he must play closely with the white Evangelical Christians, who had voted to 81 % for him in 2016.
With the appointments of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court - two “extraordinary” judges in his words - who cemented the institution in conservatism, it galvanized anti-abortion activists. Their dream? Questioning the judgment “Roe v. Wade ”. Or, failing that, authorize states to adopt very restrictive laws on voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG).
A first test will take place in March when the Supreme Court will examine a law adopted in 2014 in Louisiana, a conservative state in the South. The decision will assess whether the temple of American law has changed position on this very sensitive subject. In June 2016, six months before the coming real estate tycoon, she ruled a similar law passed in Texas illegal.
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