The justice of this western state of the United States made a decision reactivating nineteenth century legislation which almost completely prohibits abortion.
Le Monde with AFP
The White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre condemned, Saturday, September 24, “the potentially catastrophic, dangerous and unacceptable consequences of a decision taken on Friday of justice in Arizona, which, according to the American media, has reactivated XIX legislation e century almost completely prohibiting abortion.
“If this decision is confirmed, health personnel will risk up to five years in prison if he fulfills his duty of care; people who have survived rape and incest would be forced to carry the children of their aggressors; and women [pregnant] with health problems would be confronted with terrible risks, “said Karine Jean-Pierre in a press release.
Kellie Johnson, Judge of the County of Pima in Arizona, issued a decision that makes a lot of noise in the United States, where access to voluntary pregnancy interruptions (abortion), has always been a politically burning subject on Friday. , is at the center of the campaign for the legislative elections in November.
biden hopes to mobilize voters
The judge is based in her judgment on a recent decision by the very conservative American Court, who has energized, at the end of June, the right to abortion that her case law guaranteed since 1973 throughout the American territory.
The republican governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, said that he considered that following this reversal of jurisprudence, that it was a law adopted to prohibit abortion after fifteen weeks pregnancy, which would preempt the previous texts, but this interpretation does not consensus. The judge said that the High Court’s decision was a clean table, and referred the right to the matter to what it was before 1973.
This is the consequence, consider several American media, to put into force of the extremely restrictive texts dating from 1864 and 1901 – before the Americans had the right to vote and even before this Western State did not officially joined the United States in 1912.
Several conservative American states have set up after the Decision of the Supreme Court of Total or Partial Appliance. The Democratic Party, represented by President Joe Biden, hopes to mobilize voters to defend access to abortion in the ballot boxes, during the mid-term elections in November which partially renew the Senate and completely the House of Representatives.