The right to abortion increasingly threatened in the United States.

On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives, and its Republican majority, adopted two anti-abortion texts, with largely symbolic significance.

A way for the Conservatives to satisfy their constituents, after having exposed their divisions to the big day last week during a complex and historic vote for the election of their “speaker” Kevin McCarthy.

However, such an offensive by Republicans against the right to abortion could backfire, with the majority of Americans - including in conservative states - being in favor of its protection.

The scope of these two texts remains almost nil

The first resolution, supported on Wednesday by all Republicans, condemns the attacks against "establishments, associations and anti-abortion churches".

The text specifically refers to the acts of violence that took place from May 2, 2022, when a leak revealed that the Supreme Court of the United States planned to soon blast the right to abortion.

The resolution accuses, among other things, “the Biden administration of failing to take measures to respond to these radical attacks”.



The second text requires doctors present during an abortion "to provide appropriate care" to try to "save" the aborted fetus.

The family planning organization Planned Parenthood strongly criticized the resolution which "is nothing more than a strategy of manipulation by fear aimed at stigmatizing abortion".

The vast majority of Democrats voted against these measures, their leader Hakeem Jeffries believing that the decision to have an abortion “should only be made between a woman, her family and her doctors, period”.

The scope of these two texts is however limited, because they have no chance of passing the stage of the Senate, of which the Democrats retain control.

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