Aviva Fred 07:17, January 23, 2023

In the United States, the battle for abortion rights is raging.

This Sunday, for the 50th anniversary of the Roe v.

Wade, thousands of people took to the streets to defend the right enshrined in the American Constitution. 

It was to the cries of "My body, my choice" that tens of thousands of people marched in the United States this Sunday.

The participants were very determined: for them, the fight for the right to abortion has only just begun and it must be exercised above all at the ballot box.

Rachel O'Leary Carmona, the director of the Women's March which organized demonstrations, insisted on recalling the objectives.

“We need to protect our freedoms. The government needs to stop taking care of our bodies and our lives. MPs, at local and national level, need to help us and not try to control us,” she explains at the microphone of Europe 1.

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On the political side, Vice President Kamala Rice took to the front lines to commemorate 50 years since Roe v.

Wade.

She did it in Florida, on the land of very conservative Governor Joan DeSantis, a potential presidential candidate next year, whom she targeted without naming him.

"Can we really be free if so-called leaders claim to be the vanguard of freedom? When they dare to restrict the rights of Americans and attack the very foundation of freedom?"

A crucial electoral question

And the Democrats have understood it well: the defense of abortion is more than ever a promising electoral theme since, according to the polls, nearly two out of three Americans want abortion to remain legal. 

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Several protests were held around the country to commemorate "Roe v. Wade".

In New York, about 300 people marched, with the same slogans as women in the 1970s, such as "My body, my choice" ("My body, my choice").