Just over a year ago, the US Supreme Court reversed abortion rights legislation. Campaigning for re-election in 2024, President Joe Biden has said he wants to fight the “extreme and dangerous Republican agenda.”
On June 24, 2022, the high court, significantly overhauled by ex-President Donald Trump who appointed three conservative judges to it, overturned its Roe v. Wade who guaranteed since 1973 the right to abortion to American women throughout the territory. From then on, the States regained their freedom to legislate and about twenty of them decreed in the wake of a ban or significant restrictions on access to abortion.
“State-level bans are just the beginning. Congressional Republicans want to ban abortion nationwide,” Joe Biden said in a statement on the anniversary of the court ruling on Saturday.
The Democrat has once again pledged that his administration will continue to “protect” women’s health and “call on Congress to restore” the constitutional right to abortion, but this is unlikely to succeed given the division of the two chambers between Democrats and Republicans. The subject of abortion is tearing American society apart and could play a central role in the upcoming US presidential election.
Several demonstrations and events are planned for Saturday across the United States, organized by both pro and anti-abortion protesters. A large rally of the evangelical and conservative Faith and Freedom movement, which has made the ban on abortion one of its main fights, is being held in the federal capital, in which Donald Trump is due to participate on Saturday.
