Most judges, conservatives, in their advanced way, make the case for the right to abortion, yes, times are changing. But we must not declare victory.
On Monday, June 29, the United States Supreme Court struck down a more than restrictive Louisiana abortion law. News that confronts Donald Trump's politics. The latter, had appointed two Conservative judges, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, since taking office.
The agency France-Presse (AFP) recalls that this invalidation relates to a text, adopted in 2014. It aimed to oblige doctors performing abortions to obtain a license to practice in a hospital located less than 50 kilometers from the place of the 'intervention. According to the protagonists of this measure, it was about protecting women in the event of complications and ensuring "continuity of care". But for many defenders of women's rights, the law would have led to the closure of two of the three abortion establishments in Louisiana.
"Who could have left the state with just one abortion clinic", exclaims the New York Times.
For the Wall Street Journal, this case shows without the slightest doubt "A long-standing conservative ambition to reduce the right to abortion".
This media made the parallel with another law taken in Texas and which was repealed in 2016. The Supreme Court had reaffirmed that the measures "Have no medical benefit and interfere with a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy."
Barriers to Trump policy
In a previous article, we told you about another announcement that deviated from Donald Trump's policy. The US Supreme Court granted a victory to LGBT + people by ruling that they were protected by anti-discrimination mechanisms at work on June 15.
Likewise, on June 18, the Court had refused to the Trump government the repeal of an Obama-era program which, since 2012, has protected the "dreamers" of immigrants who illegally arrived in the United States when they were children.
For fifteen years, the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, had never seen such a progressive assessment, reports the newspaper Les Echos.
"Women's health rights have been attacked, while states have passed extreme laws restricting their constitutional right to choose under any circumstances," wrote presidential candidate Democrat Joe Biden. The latter promised to reinforce Roe vs. Wade of 1973 in favor of abortion.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
It is above all the fight of Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, better known under the legal pseudonym "Jane Roe". The young woman, 21 years old in 1969, pregnant for the third time wants to carry out an abortion. But in Texas, as in 45 other US states, the law prohibits this action. Jane Roe therefore approaches two feminist lawyers who will take up this symbolic case to lead the fight to the Supreme Court. Following three years of proceedings, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court recognized abortion by 7 votes to 2 as a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution, based on respect for private life.