Abortion in the United States: Joe Biden signs a second decree
Joe Biden by videoconference on August 3 in Washington.
REUTERS - EVELYN HOCKSTEIN
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The abortion battle continues in the United States, just over a month after the Supreme Court's decision to end fifty years of constitutional protection of access to voluntary termination of pregnancy.
This Wednesday, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect certain rights of American women.
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With our correspondent in Washington,
Guillaume Naudin
Joe Biden keeps repeating it,
this fight
is not over.
After a first decree to create a working group for access to reproductive health care, it was before a meeting of this group that he spoke (remotely, Covid obliges), before signing a second decree .
With two main objectives: to guarantee the right to travel of women who want an abortion and to ensure that federal laws against discrimination are applied to them.
He also did not fail to welcome the result of the referendum in Kansas the day before.
The residents of this conservative state overwhelmingly
opposed
the removal of abortion rights protections from the state constitution.
And Joe Biden sees it as a source of inspiration:
“
In a decisive vote, in a decisive victory, voters made it clear that politicians should not interfere with women's human rights.
Kansas voters have sent a powerful signal
[saying]
that this fall Americans will vote to preserve their rights and refuse to have them taken away from them by politicians.
And my administration supports them.
»
The fall, that is to say the mid-term elections.
This is the horizon of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
They are not favourites, but they want to believe that the issue of abortion can remobilize their electorate and allow them to avoid a defeat announced for months.
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