Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the dean of the Supreme Court known for her fight for abortion and reproductive rights, died Friday, September 18, 2020. Her death unfortunately threatens the right to abortion of American women.
On Friday, September 18, 2020, feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 from pancreatic cancer. Qualified as"American heroine", the dean of the Supreme Court has fought her entire life for the right to abortion in the United States.
In her last vote on a reproductive rights case last July, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Judge Sonia Sotomayor were the only obstacles in a Supreme Court ruling that would allow almost any business not to provide compulsory insurance for contraception if employers had a moral or religious objection to it. In this case, thousands of women would likely lose their contraceptive coverage.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's power at the Supreme Court to make women's rights a legal reality has transformed her into a cultural icon for American women and girls. But his death now threatens the right to abortion in the United States. Her death leaves the possibility of filling her vacant seat with an opponent of voluntary termination of pregnancy who may well ignore the three historic Supreme Court decisions on abortion rights and would seek a way to dismantle the stop "Roe vs. Wade" which marked the American debate on abortion and its legalization. This would deprive women of the constitutional right to a safe and legal abortion.
If Ruth Bader Ginsburg hoped not to be replaced before a new president is elected, Donald Trump is on the contrary in a hurry to appoint a new judge to the Supreme Court. The US president is likely to replace her with a conservative in order to secure a solid conservative majority in court.
In an interview with Madame Figaro, historian and political scientist Nicole Bacharan, a specialist in American politics and society, said that "If Trump appoints a judge right now, it will be someone anti-abortion."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court for life, so will her successor, which could seriously undermine women's rights for a very long time. Nicole Bacharan recalls that "The Supreme Court is the highest court in the country. Its mission is to rule as a last resort, for or against, decisions taken within one of the fifty states of the country or by the federal state. And so far. , there is no law on voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the US The right to abortion is based only on the 'Roe vs. Wade' judgment of 1973. The Supreme Court then ruled, by seven votes to two, that the right to privacy extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, so the appointment of a new judge by Donald Trump may well threaten the right to abortion. A right whose application today varies greatly from one state to another. "
American anti-abortion activists hope the Supreme Court will ban abortion. But if women's rights are threatened and could be reduced, Nicole Bacharan believes that a total ban on abortion is impossible. She even specifies that Americans have an abortion "both in conservative and non-conservative states, or even more since they use contraception less ".