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For: Real America News Updated 22 Jan 2022, : 41 pm EST
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, pledged to defend the “constitutional right” to abortion, which considered that he is “under assault like never before” when they meet 49 years of the judicial decision that legalized it throughout the country.
In a joint statement with his vice president, Kamala Harris, Biden said that the right to abortion must be codified in the law and promised to defend it with “every the tools” at your disposal so that the United States does not go backwards in equality for women.
“We must ensure that our daughters and granddaughters have the same fundamental rights that their mothers and grandmothers fought for and what they won today 42 years ago” , indicated the president and vice president.
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Also the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi, issued a statement from San Francisco in which she assured that the right to abortion faces “the greatest threat in decades from right-wing forces.”
This Saturday is the 49 years of “Roe versus Wade”, the decision of the Supreme Court that since 1973 forces to allow abortion in the country until the moment of “viability” of the fetus outside the womb, a limit that is now around 23 or 24 weeks of pregnancy.
When the Supreme Court agreed with Norma McCorvey, who under the pseudonym Jane Roe had sued Texas for not allowing her to have an abortion, the voluntary termination of pregnancy was only legal under certain circumstances in 17 of the 50 states of the country, and illegal abortions were common.
The United States could return to a similar situation in the middle this year, when the highest court plans to issue a ruling on abortion: everything points to the fact that the judges will impose new limits on that right, and it is they may override the precedent marked in 1973.
If that happens, each state of the country will be able to decide how it regulates abortion, and it is expected that 23 conservative-leaning territories take steps to restrict or ban it altogether, according to the Guttmacher reproductive health research center.
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