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The culture wars have reached a new height in

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The Supreme Court of that country has decided to leave the prohibition of abortion in the hands of the states.

Thus, it has annulled its 1973 ruling in which it declared this practice legal throughout the national territory, and also allowed it to be carried out as long as the embryo was not viable outside the mother's uterus, which usually meant that

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Since 1973, about

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Currently, the figure is around 700,000 a year.

But the decision is only part of the controversy.

Because, in reality, the Supreme has not yet officially adopted that position.

The news has jumped because the 'Politico' website has obtained the 'opinion' - as it is known in US legal language - of five of the nine judges of the Supreme Court, favorable to the repeal of abortion.

In other words: the case has not yet been sentenced.

That means there is, at least in theory, a chance that abortion will remain legal.

But that seems virtually impossible, among other things because, if any of the judges who support the measure back down, he will create the impression of having given in to the pro-abortion groups.

In the United States,

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These are exactly the same proportions as in 1973, according to analyzes by the Pew Center for Public Opinion, an independent nonprofit organization.

With the sentence, the decision on the prohibition or not of abortion will remain in the hands of the states.

At the time it was authorized, it was banned in 30 states.

Currently, it could become illegal in about 12, although some raise the figure considerably, up to 22 of the 50 that make up the country.

In all of them, the Republican Party has control of Congress and the governorship.

It is a culture war.

But also politics.

At the time abortion was legalized throughout the United States, there was no correlation between parties and the practice.

Today Yes.

Democrats support termination of pregnancy.

Republicans don't.

The president,

in the country.

But, for this, the vote of 60 senators would be necessary, an unattainable figure.

The draft sentence completely liquidates the

with hardly any restrictions in the United States in the case known as 'Roe versus Wade'.

As Samuel Alito points out in the opinion,

and is based on precedents "ranging from what is constitutionally irrelevant to what is simply wrong."

The text refers on several occasions to health personnel who carry out terminations of pregnancy as "abortionists", a word charged with political significance.

Paradoxically, abortion was legalized with the vote in favor of five Republican judges and only two Democrats, and with the opposition of two justices, one Democrat and one Republican.

Now, 49 years later, abortion has become an entirely partisan issue.

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Alito, who has written the majority opinion, was nominated by George W. Bush, which makes it clear that this is not a decision derived from the three justices appointed by Donald Trump.

Another of the judges who has supported the proposal is Clarence Thomas, proposed and appointed by George Bush "father" in 1991. On the other hand,

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In doubt remains the decision of the Supreme Court president, Republican John Roberts, who, however, aligned himself with the Democrats two years ago in rejecting a law in the state of Louisiana that in practice established that only a doctor could perform abortions in all that territory, which is as big as Castilla y León and Extremadura together, and in which 4.5 million people live.

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