The value of a country is not only measured by its gross domestic product. The fate he reserves for his citizens counts just as much, if not more, when it comes to the least favored people. In this yardstick, the non-final version of a judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States devoted to abortion published by the Politico site, on May 2, is likely to assert a severe blow to the image of the country.
The project to completely return to the legalization of abortion, the assessment of which would become the responsibility of States is an attack on the freedom of women, which will mainly prejudice to the poorest, to the most marginalized. The latter cannot have financial, legal and moral resources to circumvent prohibition which will quickly be implemented in the most conservative States.
Basically, the “leak” of May 2 did not surprise anyone. For decades, the most reactionary current of the American right worked tirelessly to bring down the case law set up in 1973 by the ROE vs Wade judgment, confirmed in 1992, which sanctuarized at the national level the right of women to dispose of their own body.
a methodical offensive
Everything has been set up for the epilogue that could occur in a few weeks, if the foundations of the text revealed following a rare sprain in the confidentiality of the deliberations of the highest judicial body in the United States resist to the storm of reactions that their revelation aroused.
The Supreme Court was provided by conservative presidents successive in judges selected for this purpose. For their part, the Republican States multiplied the laws derogating from the 1973 judgment in order to reach a new arbitration on the part of a reinforced majority of judges (six out of nine) acquired to the arguments of adversaries of this right .
The abrogation of Roe vs Wade, if it is maintained, will place the United States in the camp of the rare retrograde countries concerning abortion, such as Poland, Honduras or Nicaragua, which can hardly be present as Parangons of law. It will bring a fatal counterpoint to the notable advances in women’s rights in the matter in recent years, from Argentina to South Korea, like Mexico to Thailand, even if more than 40 % of women around the world always live under the yoke of particularly restrictive laws.
Such a decline in the United States would be added, it is true, to a methodical offensive from the republican ranks against the rights of minorities, whether sexual or ethnic. It aims in particular a theory long remain confidential, the Critical Race Theory, which analyzes racism as a particularly resilient system.
The attack on Roe vs Wade, of which an indisputable majority of Americans wishes to maintain, proves that conservative stiffening, by its magnitude, produces much more devastating effects than those attributed to wokism, the radical progressivism that the conservatives of Any hair, like seized with a saint frousse, are constantly agitating like a red cloth.
The assault against the freedoms of women certainly provides a powerful campaign message at the Democratic camp a few months before the mid-term elections. But it will above all dig even more the divisions of a country delivered to a real intestine cold war.