The date of January 22 could have been celebrated as a highly symbolic anniversary for women's rights in the United States.
Fifty years to the day after the Supreme Court's decision enshrining the right to abortion in the American constitution, supporters of the right to abortion had to commemorate "Roe v.
Wade”, jurisprudence buried last June by the highest American court.
Demonstrators marched through the streets to support and fight to restore this right at the national level.
For their part, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have also promised to fight.
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”).
Ymoni Shavuo, one of the organizers, 27, remembers crying when the “Roe v.
Wade” fell.
“Today we mourn this constitutional right (…) but I am not discouraged, I am not giving up, I am even more mobilized,” she told AFP.
“Today we should be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roe v.
Wade,” Joe Biden recalled in a tweet.
"Instead, Republican 'MAGA' officials have gone to war against women's right to make decisions about their health," the Democratic president denounced.
Opponents of the right to abortion in the streets Friday
Vice President Kamala Harris has joined in this attack.
“How dare they?
she exclaimed during a speech delivered in Florida, referring to those Republican officials who want to legislate at the federal level to restrict or even eliminate the right to abortion everywhere in the United States.
She also castigated "the laws designed by extremists in certain states including Florida" to restrict access to abortion.
But neither the 80-year-old Democrat nor the vice president has any illusions.
One of the two Houses of Congress, the House of Representatives, has just passed into the hands of the Conservatives.
This divided Congress that makes a great law on abortion illusory, whether to protect it or undermine it.
The pressure from the religious right, on this subject which has divided America for decades, does not weaken.
Thousands of abortion opponents marched on Friday to call on parliamentarians for a national ban.
The president can only issue decrees of limited scope.
On Sunday, the White House, for example, promised to protect as much as possible access to pills which make it possible to terminate a pregnancy during the first weeks.
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