California wants to defend the right to abortion and made it clear after the Supreme Court’s draft decision to change this record was revealed on Monday.
Governor of California Gavin Newsom on February 9, 2022 in San Francisco, California.
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Defend the right to voluntary abortion and welcome all women in their state who do not have access to it: Public rallies erupted in California on Tuesday following the release of the draft ruling on this achievement by the Supreme Court.
“Our daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers will never be quiet,” California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsome tweeted. “The world is going to hear their anger. California will not be idle. We are going to fight like devils, ”he promised shortly after the Politico site released the document on Monday evening.
In the process, the governors and leaders of the most populous and wealthy U.S. state legislatures declared “an amendment that includes the right to choose in our state constitution.” “We know we can not trust the Supreme Court to protect reproductive rights, so California will set a firewall around this right in our constitution,” they write.
“Be a beacon of hope”
Of course, this amendment should be put to a vote during the midterm elections next November, which will have a symbolic significance, as many laws already guarantee the right to abortion on California soil. But the purpose of this announcement is this: to inform all women living in states that restrict or prohibit abortion that California, the stronghold of the Democratic Party, will continue to welcome them.
“We will not abandon women and families affected by the reactionary and irresponsible policies of other states,” California Interim Senate President Tony Atkins told a news conference Tuesday. For them.
One in four women
According to GoodMatcher, the Supreme Court ruled in a few weeks that “Ro V. The Wade of 1973 (whereas the U.S. Constitution guarantees women the right to have an abortion until the fetus is “possible” states that 26 U.S. states will “certainly or probably” decide to ban abortion in their territory.
A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health concludes that nearly one in four women in the United States will have an abortion before reaching the age of 45. “It’s not going to stop suddenly because it is banned by extremist politicians. This need will continue!” Jodie Hicks, head of the Planned Parenthood organization in California, manages half of the 165 abortion centers in the state.
“Dignity”
“It’s about dignity, people’s health and their path to the future,” she stresses, citing the case of helpless and vulnerable young women who are forced to go out of state to have an abortion. “We are well aware that this type of barrier affects people of low income and color equally.”
Planned Parenthood says it has treated at least 80 out-of-state patients each month in California since Texas tightened its abortion requirements last September. Its Mar Monte branch, which covers northern California and neighboring Nevada, is preparing to accommodate 250 to 500 additional patients per week. Wade ”is broken.
A new abortion center will open in Reno, close to the airport and other transportation hubs, to facilitate the arrival of women from other states, the planned parenthood says on its website. California, which has distinguished itself by fierce opposition to former President Donald Trump’s conservative policies, has already passed legislation in 2014 that would force employers and private insurers to reimburse abortion for their health insurance.
“Stop the war on women”: Several thousand people rallied in New York on Tuesday evening to “anger” against the intentions of the US Supreme Court to violate the constitutional right to abortion.
It was New York State’s most aggressive attorney general, Letitia James of the elected Democrats, who rallied in front of thousands of women and men gathered in one place south of Manhattan. To federal court. Before a human wave, Letidia James began the “call to action.”
The magistrate slammed the Supreme Court’s draft ruling as “a warning and this is not the time to be silent (…) we should be angry” and qualified to defend the right to abortion in “one of the greatest wars”. Pay “.” We will not go back, we will not go back when we used the code hangers. Never again! “He promised,” The right to control (his) body is a fundamental right. “
(AFP)