The conservative majority inherited from Trump plans to eliminate the historic sentence of 1973 that allowed to interrupt the gestation
Fifteen weeks, twenty-four, what difference does it make? The legal limit to terminate pregnancy, established 50 years ago with the Roe vs. Wade ruling, is random for Supreme Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of three appointed by Donald Trump, but not for the majority of women. The new conservative majority of the highest court yesterday had the opportunity to fulfill the promise it made to the former president to overturn the fundamental right of women to decide when they want to be mothers. The only question is whether it will be partially or totally dismantled.
The opportunity was provided by the state of Mississippi, with a law passed in 2018 that vetoes the surgical procedure “if the probable gestation of a human being” is more than 15 weeks old. The 1973 ruling established that this right can be freely exercised up to 24 weeks, before which there is practically no possibility that the fetus can survive on its own.
From there, a dozen states have drafted their own restrictive laws in open defiance of the historic ruling to give the new conservative majority this chance to undo what the Mississippi state attorney considers “a heinous injustice that lasts half a century ». All these state laws are frozen pending the appeals presented, which would be cleared with this decision of the Supreme Court that will not be known until June. The court takes its time to prepare the sentences, although it will decide it in a private conclave tomorrow.
Texas
Texas, the state that has made the most restrictive law, places the deadline at six weeks of gestation, when the vast majority do not even know they are pregnant. Mississippi state attorney Scott Stewart, who argued the case in Washington on Wednesday, believes that today there are enough contraceptive methods that no woman has to get pregnant if she does not want to, ignoring not only incest cases, rape or risk to the mother, but something key: that half of the women who abort used some type of contraceptive, as explained by the lawyer from the Center for Reproductive Rights Julie Rikelman, representing the only Mississippi clinic that performs abortion procedures.
From the questions, the court seems inclined to leave the right to abortion in the hands of each state, which would force millions of women without resources to travel to choose between clandestine abortion or forced motherhood.
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