The vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, has declared this Sunday that the Supreme Court took away from women in 2022 the “fundamental constitutional right” to decide over their own bodies, but has assured that the Government of President Joe Biden fight to guarantee it and promote a law that protects it.
“No one can tell people what to do with their own body.“, Harris has defended in an act in Talahassee, the capital of Florida, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the ruling of the US Supreme Court that upheld the right to abortion in 1973. Thus, the vice president has spoken of the revocation of that ruling decided by the same court in June 2022 as a “deprivation of rights” in a country whose Constitution recognizes the Liberty and the pursuit of happiness as core values.
“How can you be free if a woman can’t decideif a doctor cannot attend to his patient and if a person cannot direct the course of his own life?”, the vice president of the United States asked herself.
In this way, the vice president of the United States has invited all Americans to join the fight to preserve the rights reproductive health, and has highlighted the new measures taken by the Government to guarantee the access to abortion pills prescribed by doctors in certified pharmacies throughout the country.
In this sense, Harris has harshly criticized those who “call themselves leaders”, referring to governors who restrict the rights of women to decide about their pregnancy and penalize, even with prison sentences, professionals of health to attend to them.
Before an audience made up mostly of women who have been lining up since early in the morning to be able to attend the act in the concert hall ‘The Moon’, Harris has expressed that the Americans wonder what else can happen in the states controlled by the Republicans after laws banning abortion.
“How dare they?”, has been asked amid applause from the public, among which were members of the US Congress and local authorities, as well as women like Amanda from Texan, victims of the law that prohibits abortion in that state. According to Harris, who has greeted Amanda and her husband from the dais, this Texan woman he was denied care in medical centers up to three times in the midst of a miscarriage for fear of being penalized by the ban, and only cared for her when she suffered an infection that could have cost her her life.
“No one is immune to the impact of these laws,” he stressed, for later ask Congress to pass a law that protects reproductive rights, and has assured that “President Biden will sign it.”
Criticism of Florida and other states with bans
In his visit to Florida, which some analysts have defined as a “challenge” by the Biden Administration to Governor Ron DeSantis, a fierce critic of the Government to whom presidential ambitions are attributed, Harris has not avoided criticize the southern state’s anti-abortion policy. In July 2022, one month after the overturning ruling that protected abortion for 49 years, a law came into effect in Florida that reduced the term to legally abort from 24 to 15 weeks of pregnancy, with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest or “for victims of sex trafficking”Harris stressed.
“Here in Florida, healthcare providers They face five-year prison terms. only for simply do his job, and now the state has targeted abortion drugs and has threatened pharmacies with criminal charges if they supply those drugs prescribed by doctors,” said the US vice president. Thus, Harris has warned that there are 22 states, including Florida, that they have said they will not abide by new federal rules that allow women to get medicines prescribed by their doctors at certified pharmacies.
In response to these “so-called leaders,” Biden has issued a memo directing members of the Administration to identify barriers to access to prescription drugs and recommend actions to ensure that doctors can legally prescribe, that pharmacies can dispense and that women can obtain safe medicines and effective”, he stressed.
After assuring that the Government is not going to “go backwards” in its objective of restoring the rights of which women are deprived, the vice president has indicated that the Americans “spoke with their vote” in the last elections. “In essence, they said that one does not have to abandon one’s faith or deeply held beliefs to accept that the government shouldn’t tell people what to do with their own bodies“, it is finished.
Source: Lasexta
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