“I express my solidarity with the women whose freedoms are today questioned by the Supreme Court of the United States of America”, tweeted the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday regretted the “questioning” by the United States Supreme Court of women’s freedoms, stressing that “abortion is a fundamental right for all women”.
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“It must be protected. I express my solidarity with the women whose freedoms are today challenged by the Supreme Court of the United States of America,” he tweeted. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne also lamented on Twitter “a dark day for women’s rights”. “Total solidarity with all women in the United States and around the world. We will not give up on our rights, ever,” she continued.
The very conservative Supreme Court of the United States on Friday buried a judgment which, for nearly half a century, guaranteed the right of American women to abortion but had never been accepted by the religious right. In the wake of the decision, several American states have already announced that they are taking measures to prohibit voluntary terminations of pregnancy on their territory.
In France, the decision caused many politicians to react.
Regression
“Great misfortune”, tweeted the leader of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “Trump’s country legalizes the carrying of weapons in the streets and allows the ban on abortion. Alert: we know the channels of contagion from the USA to France”, he warned.
Former EELV presidential candidate Yannick Jadot deplored “an absolute regression for women’s rights in the United States” and “a terrible signal for the rest of the world”. “Complacency with the far right always has dramatic consequences. There as here,” he tweeted.
“The consequences of Trump’s appointments, that’s the risk of the far right. A serious setback for women’s rights, a danger to women’s lives. Nothing is certain: never give up on anything for the right to abortion and to freely dispose of one’s body, for all”, tweeted the leader of the socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud.
“Nine judges have therefore decided on the lives of thousands of women who each year will no longer have access to a fundamental right”, regretted the head of LREM deputies in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé. The boss of the communists Fabien Roussel denounced “a disaster and a terrible regression for women who will no longer be free to dispose of their bodies”.
The LR mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi sees it as “a terrible step back, an attack on the freedoms and rights of women” and “an insult to the memory of those who fought for this right, like Simone Veil in France”.