The US Senate will find itself voting to try to preserve the  

Roe v.

Wade

(1973) that with a motivation based solely on the principle of privacy

of women made abortion a right protected by the federal state.

A law that seriously risks being overturned by a Supreme Court with a conservative majority.

Meanwhile, US Democratic Senator

Joe Manchin

said he would vote Wednesday against abortion rights legislation as reported by a CNN reporter in a tweet. 

Many positions were taken against the possibility of annulling the 1973 law.

The Gucci fashion house takes a stand on the issue with a statement saying that the

Kering

group house "is firmly convinced that access to reproductive health is a fundamental human right" and for this "will reimburse travel expenses for all employees in the United States who need access to health services not available in their state of residence".   

Through the

"Chime for Change"

foundation , Gucci will continue to support partner organizations that "facilitate access to reproductive health and protect human rights, especially for the most vulnerable people", reads the fashion house's statement.

Gucci launched the foundation with the help of

Salma Hayek and Beyoncé

in 2013 with the aim of "inspiring participation in a collective community and uniting peoples across borders and generations in the fight for gender equality".

In less than a decade, the foundation has raised over $19 million for projects to support women and girls in 89 countries around the world.   

If, as speculated after the publication of the draft signed by Judge Samuel Alito, next summer the Court were to backtrack on "Roe v. Wade", the decision whether to prohibit or restrict abortion would fall back to individual states.

According to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, abortion could become illegal in at least 26 of the 50 US states. 

With the latest announcement, Gucci joins a growing number of brands, such as

Levi's,

who have taken a stand on the risks facing women's reproductive rights. 

 In May 2019, the Gucci fashion house, presenting its collection in Rome, had sent numerous garments on the catwalk with messages alluding to abortion and women's rights: among these an evening dress with a strategically positioned embroidered uterus and a jacket with the "MyBody, My Choice" logo on the back.

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US Supreme Court, vote on abortion.

Senators Susan Collin of Maine and Dianne Feinstein of California

The Supreme Court and the "Roe vs. Wade"

The United States

Supreme Court

appears intent on

vote to overturn the historic

1973 Roe vs. Wade

ruling , which guaranteed the right to abortion in the US - later supplemented by "

Planned Parenthood vs. Casey,"

a subsequent 1992 decision that largely upheld constitutional protection.

This was revealed by the American website

Politico

, which received a copy of the draft document - containing the "opinion of the Court" - drawn up last February by

Samuel Alito

, a republican judge appointed by a president of the Grand Old Party, George W. Bush, in 2005. The text is a "total and firm" repudiation of the decision made 49 years ago.

"We believe Roe and Casey should be overruled," the filing reads.

“It is time to listen to the Constitution – he continues – and return the question of abortion to the elected representatives of the people“.

Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett - the other Republican judges - voted with Alito.

The three Democratic judges Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are working on a counter-draft, according to some sources.

It will be important to understand how the president, considered a moderate, of the most important judicial body,

John Roberts

, also appointed by Bush in 2006, will line up. The content of the draft is provisional and could undergo changes before the official sentence of the nine judges, committed for months now in the examination of the 2018 Mississippi State Law, which set the limit within which an abortion could be resorted to 15 weeks after conception.

It all started with the constitutional lawsuit filed by the

Jackson Women's Health

Organization

against the Republican state rule prohibiting abortions after the 15th week.

The decision Planned Parenthood v.

Casey establishes, however, that abortion is practicable up to about

seven months

of pregnancy.

“This Supreme Court opinion is horrific and unprecedented and confirms our worst fears… We will continue to fight to protect the right to access safe and legal abortion,” said Planned Parenthood President

Alexis McGill. 

 “If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v.

Wade, it will be up to our elected leaders at all levels of government to protect women's right to choose and it will be up to the voters to elect pro-choice leaders in November "in the

midterm elections"

, declares the US president,

Joe Biden

who, as a Catholic, invites elect pro-choice parliamentarians who codify the sentence, undertaking to promulgate it into law.

After warning that "we do not know if the draft is authentic or if it reflects the final decision of the court", the president recalls in a note from the White House that his administration "argued strongly before the

Supreme Court

in defense of Roe v.

Wade“