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A leak obtained by Politico of a leaked initial draft of the abortion issue has prompted a renewal of America's culture war over one of the most important societal issues that shows the depth of American societal division on this sensitive issue.

The document was written by conservative judge Samuel Alito on the tenth of last February and came in 98 pages, and the most important content of the document was Judge Alito’s saying that “the ruling in the “Roe v. Wade” case (the law that guaranteed the right to abortion for 50 years) should be overturned.

My statement on the reported Supreme Court decision draft.

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— President Biden (@POTUS) May 3, 2022

At a time when the religious and conservative forces and most of the Republicans welcomed the content of the leak, the liberals and the left forces, and most of the Democrats, rejected the contents of the document, and considered it a prelude to draconian legislation (relating to a Greek legislator named Draco, which means that the government is unique in determining the law regulating this process) criminalizing the right to abortion .

Biden enters the line

Politico's leak prompted senior American politicians to once again express their positions on abortion, and their view of the content of the leak.

My statement on the reported Supreme Court decision draft.

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— President Biden (@POTUS) May 3, 2022

US President Joe Biden issued a statement Monday morning saying that if the Court "overturns Roe's decision and restricts the exercise of the right to abortion, it will fall to the elected officials of our nation at all levels of government to protect women's right to choose. It will fall to voters to elect officials in favor of the selection in November.

"At the federal level, we're going to need more pro-choice senators and a pro-choice majority in the House of Representatives to pass legislation to legalize abortion, which I'm going to get to pass and sign into law."

"I think a woman's right to choose is fundamental," Biden said. "The Roe Act is a law that's been around for nearly 50 years. The desire for fairness and our legal stability demand that it not be repealed."

Last night's stunning breach was an attack on the independence of the Supreme Court.

By every indication, this was yet another escalation in the radical left's ongoing campaign to bully and intimidate federal judges and substitute mob rule for the rule of law.

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— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) May 3, 2022

In contrast to Biden's position, Senator Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, tweeted attacking the leak, and considered it a breach and interference in the independence of the work of the Supreme Constitutional Court.

Senator McConnell tweeted, "Last night's stunning breach is an attack on the independence of the Supreme Court. By all indications, this was another escalation in the Radical Left's ongoing campaign to bully and intimidate federal judges and replace mob rule with the rule of law."

Renewed ancient culture war

Abortion is a controversial issue in the United States, and Americans are sharply divided along party, ideological and religious lines.

Nearly five decades after it was addressed in the US Supreme Court, the court's decision on abortion still divides Americans between opponents and supporters on an issue that has not stopped in the courts, but has spread to the polls and the various state legislatures.

Several states imposed or passed new restrictions on abortion in 2021, with the aim of giving the Supreme Court a chance to overturn its 1973 decision.

The Supreme Court agreed last May to review a Mississippi law that aims to make most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy illegal, and this case will be the first review of abortion law in court in a long time.

Today, a majority of 59% of adults in the United States say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 39% believe that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

These views have not changed relatively in the past few years.

The latest Pew Research Center poll, conducted from April 5-11, found deep disagreements about abortion based on party affiliation, which is much broader than it was two decades ago.

On the other hand, the changes in the composition of the Supreme Court during the Trump era - especially the appointment of 3 conservative justices, which raised the number of conservative judges to 6 compared to 3 liberals - changed its mood towards the abortion issue.

Conservative judges are willing to repeal previous legislation, crack down on abortion, and encourage women to offer their children up for adoption rather than "getting rid of them before they are born."

Conservative judges in America are willing to repeal previous legislation, clamp down on abortion, and encourage women to put their children up for adoption rather than "get rid of them before they are born" (Getty Images)

How did we get to this stage?

The law passed by Mississippi was blocked by two federal courts, allowing it to reach the United States Supreme Court.

The law allows abortion after 15 weeks, with the exception of medical emergencies, or in cases of severe fetal malformation.

But it does not make an exception for cases of rape or incest.

If doctors perform abortions outside the limits of the law, it provides for the suspension or revocation of their medical licenses, with the possibility of additional penalties and fines.

The court's approval to consider the law came after it also rejected the Texas abortion law ban, which prohibits abortion after about 6 weeks of pregnancy, without making any exceptions for rape and incest as well.

In the view of many conservative jurists, the provisions of the US Constitution do not reflect either the right to life or the right to choose with regard to abortion.

Accordingly, the Supreme Court does not have to choose one side over the other in the most contentious issues in American social life.

After decades that witnessed many failures of the conservative movement calling for restrictions on the right to abortion, signs of change in this direction began to take shape in the United States during the past few years.

Conservative southern states, such as Texas and Mississippi, have been able to pass specific and complex abortion legislation within their borders.

Abortion.. a political battle

The administration of President Joe Biden opposed the decision of the state of Mississippi, and Attorney General Elizabeth Prilugar, representing the administration of President Biden, stressed before the Supreme Court the importance of moving away from violating the "Roe v. Wade" law, which guaranteed the right to abortion for 50 years.

While the attorney general representing the state of Mississippi, Scott Stewart, considered that abortion laws "stalk our country" and that they "poisoned the law."

Outside the court gates, hundreds of protesters stood between supporters of abolition and opponents of its ban.

According to a poll conducted by "Fox" news network on 1,002 people between September 12-15, 29% of Americans considered abortion to be a legal act in all cases.

And 20% considered it legal work in most cases.

On the contrary, 11% considered it an illegal act in all cases, and 38% said it was an illegal act in most cases.

What's Next?

It remains unclear what decisions a majority of the court's nine justices intend to make, whether to leave the right to abortion to individual state authorities, or to allow the federal ban on abortion after a specified number of weeks without repealing Roe v. Wade.

It is worth noting that a simple majority - 5 votes - is sufficient to pass any new law.

The debate on the court's new decision is expected to reach early next summer, when the court will convene to announce the decisive decision.