The State Governor of the State signed a law prohibiting an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, one of the most prohibitive in the country, while the Supreme Court would be preparing to return to this right at the federal level.
Le Monde with AFP
Tuesday, May 3, Oklahoma was added to the already long list of American states about to prohibit or strongly limit abortion. “I represent all of the four million inhabitants of Oklahoma who, overwhelmingly, want to protect children to be born,” the republican governor, by promulgating the text voted by the Parliament of the Parliament of the Parliament ‘State Thursday April 28.
“I want Oklahoma to become the most pro-life state in the country,” he said, using the expression devoted by the Americans opposed to voluntary pregnancy interruptions (IVG). The text provides for medical exceptions, but not in case of rape or incest.
This conservative state has been welcoming thousands of Texans for a few months looking to abort, after the passage of a similar text in this neighboring state. Since September 2021 already, Texas has set up a law prohibiting any abortion from the moment a heartbeat of the embryo is perceptible to ultrasound, or about four weeks after fertilization. The legality of similar texts in other states has been studied by the Supreme Court of the United States for several months.
Twenty-three conservative states ready to prohibit abortion
But, Monday evening, the publication by the Politico newspaper of a draft decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on this subject indicates that the highest American jurisdiction would be on the verge of handing over to the States the power of Authorize or not, abortion, almost fifty years after making them legal throughout the country.
The leakage of this document, whose authenticity was confirmed by the Court, which recalled that it was not the final decision, had the effect of a bomb in Washington and pushed the Democratic president Joe Biden to recall his support for the right to abortion. “I believe that the right of women to choose is fundamental,” he said, adding that he was going to study “options for an answer from the administration to the attack on abortion.” >
If the highest jurisdiction came to cancel the jurisprudence roe v. Wade, the country would return to the situation before 1973 when each state was free to ban or authorize abortion. at least twenty Three conservative states , mostly in the center and south of the country such as Wyoming, Tennessee or South Carolina are ready to prohibit abortion purely and simply.