The cities of Eugene and Portland, in the state of Oregon, were some of the scenes of protests in favor of abortion. Among the signs held by the hundreds of protesters in Portland, for example, could be read legends such as “Death on the Supreme Court.”
New demonstrations were also registered in New York and Washington, just in front of the Court’s headquarters, where two people were arrested, the ANSA news agency reported.
Last Friday, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court buried the right to abortion, which had been legal in the country since 1973, which was considered “a tragic mistake” by President Joe Biden, used by several states to advance contrary measures to interruptions of pregnancy and celebrated and questioned by right-wing and progressive organizations, respectively, even from outside the country.
In this context, according to a poll by the Gallup consulting firm, published by ANSA today, the trust of US citizens in the Supreme Court has decreased: only 25% of those surveyed trust it, compared to 36% a year ago.
The previous record low was 30% in 2014, a year in which confidence in major US institutions bottomed out across the board, averaging 31%.
Over the past 16 years, support for the high court has plummeted across the board: Between 1973 and 2006, the average was 47%.
Along with abortion, there is also strong pressure on the “morning after pill”.
South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem announced she will ban telemedicine appointments to prevent women from getting prescription abortion pills online and receiving them in the mail.
According to a report by the Department of Internal Security, there is a risk that internal extremists will take advantage of the situation created by the Supreme Court ruling to carry out acts of violence, reported the ABC portal.
The assessment, according to the report, is based “on the increase in violence that occurred in May after the leak of news about the opinion of the highest judges on abortion.”
The threat, the department warned, could last “weeks.”
“Domestic extremists” are targeted by judges, government and state officials. But also the pro-abortion clinics and protests that take place mostly peacefully at these hours.
Democratic deputy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Biden to react to the Supreme Court’s decision and open “immediately clinics” for the practice of abortion “on federal land in the Republican states that impose the ban.”
“There are things that the president can do right now. This is the first step, the smallest step,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a rally in New York.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren also urged the president to “explore the extent to which federal lands can be used to protect women who need access to abortion in all states that have banned it or are in the process of doing so.”
“There’s a lot we can do at the federal level from an administrative standpoint under current law. We have to do it,” Warren insisted.
Source: Ambito
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