End of the right to abortion: in Washington, triumph and despair

Paxton Smith takes a break, in front of the Supreme Court, in Washington, before throwing himself again into the fray. She says: “I came to use my voice, my body, to say that we do not accept that they annul the judgment Roe vs. Wade”, which guaranteed the federal right to abortion since 1973. But we feel tired.

The last time Paxton was seen, trumpet-nosed and square auburn, was in October, in Austin, Texas. The State had passed, the 1^er September, a law that prohibited abortion after 6 weeks. He was only the harbinger of a historical and national change. In June 2021, Paxton, the best of her high school class, caused a scandal by devoting her end-of-year speech to this rising threat.

Since then she has become…