Several hundred people demonstrated this Saturday in Washington in defense of the right to abortion, which this week was questioned again in USAjust one day after the Supreme Court decided to temporarily uphold full access to a pill used for half of the country’s abortions and lifted restrictions on the drug’s use imposed by lower courts.
“Judges are not doctors”, “abortion must remain legal!” were some of the slogans with which pro-abortion citizens mobilized in the capital.
The country is embroiled in a complex legal battle over access to the abortion pill, which yesterday was temporarily upheld by the Supreme Court but remains threatened in the long term.
“When will they stop?” Carol Bouchard asked herself in front of the white marble building that houses the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States.
With a banner in her hands, this 61-year-old former lawyer declared herself “very angry” about the threats that have been hanging over abortion since almost a year ago the Supreme Court canceled the constitutional protection that she had enjoyed since 1973.
Since then, voluntary terminations of pregnancies have been banned in fifteen states.
In the midst of the rally, Brittany House, a Washington resident, took the stage and revealed that she miscarried in 2012, when she was just out of college.
“The abortion gave me freedom,” said the young woman, who assumed that at the age of 21 “she would not have been able to support” her son.
The AFP agency reported that many septuagenarians also participated in the march, outraged to see that the restrictions on this level multiplied, 50 years after having fought for the right to abortion.
The demonstration was briefly interrupted by a small group of “pro-life” protesters who proclaimed, using a megaphone, that “abortions are murder.”
Pro-abortion protests were also held in Los Angeles and New York.
Yesterday, the Court issued an “administrative stay” freezing the rulings of other courts until Wednesday night to allow the parties to present their arguments.
Hours earlier, the Joe Biden government had filed a last-minute appeal requesting that it urgently intervene to preserve access to this pill.
Taking the issue before the country’s highest court, the Biden administration urged a freeze on recent rulings that would ban or place limits on the use of the drug mifepristone.
Source: Ambito
