Abortion rights supporters rallied last weekend in the United States against the Supreme Court's decision to strike down what many thought was a given.

By revoking its emblematic decision “Roe v.

Wade”, which since 1973 guaranteed the right of American women to have an abortion, the high court leaves the States the choice of whether or not to ban abortions in a deeply divided country.

In pictures, some slogans in the processions of defenders of the right to abortion.


Directed by:

Olivier JUSZCZAK

  • Thousands of people demonstrated Friday evening in New York and Boston, shouting their anger after the burial of the right to abortion decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.

  • By revoking its emblematic decision “Roe v.

    Wade”, which since 1973 guaranteed the right of American women to have an abortion, the high court leaves the choice to the States to prohibit or not the IVG

    .

  • When this historic volte-face was announced, leaving the right to authorize or prohibit abortion to the choice of the States, a handful of them took the opportunity to immediately ban abortions on their soil.

  • Friday evening, at least seven Republican and conservative states had already banned abortion: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

  • It is also part of the record of former President Donald Trump who, during his mandate, profoundly overhauled the Supreme Court by bringing in three conservative magistrates who signed this judgment.

  • This decision, “it is the will of God”, welcomed the Republican billionaire on the

    Fox

    channel .

  • President Joe Biden said Saturday before flying to Europe to know "how painful and devastating this decision is for many Americans".

  • Defenders of the right to abortion also fear that the Supreme Court, with a clear conservative majority, will reverse other rights such as marriage for all or contraception.

  • In one part of the country, women wishing to have an abortion will be forced to continue their pregnancy, to manage clandestinely, in particular by obtaining abortion pills on the Internet, or to travel to other States where abortions will remain legal.

  • Anticipating an influx, these States, most often Democrats, have taken measures to facilitate access to abortion on their soil.

  • But traveling is expensive, and the Supreme Court's ruling will further penalize poor or single-parent women, who are overrepresented in black and Hispanic minorities, abortion rights advocates point out.

    According to a poll published Sunday by CBS, a majority of Americans disapprove of the Supreme Court's decision: 59% of respondents and 67% of women oppose it.

  • Late Friday afternoon, around fifty people gathered at the Place de la République in Paris to defend the right to abortion.

    The leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot announced that she would propose to the left alliance Nupes "to table a bill to include the right to abortion in the Constitution".

    The leader of LREM deputies Aurore Bergé also announced on Saturday the tabling of a bill to this effect.

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