The go-ahead with 219 votes in favor and 210 against. In the Senate, Democrats would need at least ten Republican votes to finally get the law passed
Someone spoke of a “return to the Middle Ages”. Almost all of them complained about an “abolished fundamental right”. The protest never stopped – not only in the United States – after the decision of the Supreme Court, which abolished the historic roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States. Today the first step backwards: the American Chamber, with a democratic majority, has in fact restored the right to abortion at the national level, thus banning restrictions on the termination of pregnancy. The measure was approved with 219 votes in favor and 210 against. Now, however, the ball goes to the Senate, where it is unlikely to be approved: the Democrats, in fact, would need at least ten votes from the Republicans to get the law definitively approved. And so today’s breakthrough could turn out to be nothing.
At the moment abortion is legal only in some states. And Democrats fear that the Conservatives also want to block the possibility for women to go to another state to undergo the surgery.
After the Supreme Court decision, he had been the American president himself Joe Biden to invite all women to «continue to protest. Keep holding the point. It is of crucial importance ». Then he added, “As President, I don’t have the authority to say we’ll reinstate ‘Roe v Wade’ as the law of the country. The only way we will be able to do this is through a US Congress election that will vote on a new national law and which I will be happy to sign when that happens. “
On the case, however, of the 10 year old girl raped and forced to go to Indiana to undergo an abortion, given that in her state, Ohio, the ban on termination of pregnancy had entered into force from the sixth week, “try to put yourself in that little girl’s shoes, she is only 10 years old “, the White House tenant had urged.
It is also the news today that in Arizona, almost four years after ending a pregnancy with abortion pills, obtained from a clinic in Phoenix, a woman has been sued in a lawsuit. The ex-husband in fact denounced the clinic and its doctors for “unjust death” for not having received “informed consent” from the woman, as required by Arizona law. The woman had an abortion in the seventh week of pregnancy. The lawsuit, launched in 2020, has emerged in recent days because, in the light of the sentence of the Supreme Court, which revoked the federal right to abortion, it could push other people to sue, considering the embryo or fetus in the first weeks already a human being. According to legal experts contacted by the American site ProPublica, the anti-abortion groups intend to take the consequences of the Court’s decision to the extreme, in order to discourage doctors from any attempt to help a person who wants to have an abortion, even in the case of incest, rape or malformations.
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