Hundreds of citizens demonstrated in various cities across the US this Saturday at the call of organizations advocating the right to abortion. protest the punishment restricts access to the abortion pillfollowing a Texas judge’s decision.
Loading banners with messages like: “prohibitions outside our body”, “abortion is health care” or “keep abortion legal” hundreds of people gathered in cities like Washington to protest this new crackdown on women’s right to abortion.
“We are losing our rights. In the United States, the majority of citizens approve of abortion and It’s ridiculous that a judge who doesn’t have the right to get involved in this.. “We are very angry and we must revolt,” said Dena Lebowitz, one of the marchers organized by Planned Parenthood.
The Washington protest took place in front of the Supreme Court a few hours later. this court decided to blocka lower court order temporarily restricting access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito released on Friday the opinion that the decision should be frozen by midnight on WednesdayAfter the Justice Department filed an urgent petition asking the court to intervene in the case.
After returning to the United States from Ireland, the President Joe Biden He touched on this case again today.
“What the (Texas) court did is outrageous They conclude that they will overturn the FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) decision. “I think he’s outside of his sphere of influence, but we’ll see what happens,” he told reporters as he stepped off the presidential plane.
Planned Parenthood organization, Advocates for high-quality, affordable reproductive and medical care Several marches have been held across the country in cities such as South Dakota, Texas, Chicago, and Florida, and other events will be held tomorrow to protest this new lawsuit that further restricts the right to abortion.
Members of the medical community attended the Washington event, saying that medical professionals cannot provide quality care where abortion restrictions are in effect.
“My patients should be able to receive the highest level of care without being stigmatized”Divya Shenoy, director of primary care at Planned Parenthood, called the move to ban mifepristone “the antithesis” at the event. from its medical applications.
The political and judicial struggle over abortion in the United States began in June last year when the conservative-majority Supreme Court ruled that He also destroyed the constitutional right At the federal level, it leaves the decision to each state.
Dozens of Republican-run states have since restricted the practice, and according to Planned Parenthood, 18 out of 50 states ban or severely restrict abortionand 13, access to this service is nearly impossible, although there are exceptions.
At the center of the current legal dispute is the FDA’s health clearance 23 years ago for mifepristone, which is used in more than half of the country’s abortions.
A Texas judge’s decision to withdraw the FDA’s health clearance for the pill was partially upheld by a Louisiana appeals court last Wednesday, and The restrictions would go into effect this Saturday.
The court stated the following in its decision: the drug may only be present up to the first seven weeks of pregnancythree less than before, and this must be taken in person.
The Ministry of Justice, before the Supreme Court, if it comes into force, restriction of mifepristone will have serious consequences both for those seeking abortions and for the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA.
Supreme Court decision until noon on tuesday for plaintiffs to present their answers. That way, judges have time to examine whether they have formally decided to suspend the sentence that restricts access to medicine at the national level.