Joe Biden and Kamala Harris vowed this Sunday to fight for the right to abortion

The president of United States, Joe Bidenand its vice president, Kamala Harrispromised this Sunday to fight for the right to abortion on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed it until its revocation months ago.

Several rallies were held across the country to commemorate the Roe v. Wade, jurisprudence that the high court – now with a conservative majority – buried last June at the federal level, leaving the decision on whether to allow the interruption of pregnancy in the hands of the states, reported the AFP Agency.

In New York, some 300 people marched with the same slogans that women raised in the 1970s: “My body, my choice” (My body, my right). “Today should have been the 50th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade,” the Democratic president wrote on Twitter, alluding to the original ruling.

”In contrast, Republican officials in WIZARD” (supporters of former President Donald Trump, using their slogan Make America Great Again) “are waging a war on the right of women to make their own health care decisions.”

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“How dare they?”

The vice president, Kamala Harrisadded to the claim. “How dare they?”, he exclaimed during a speech in Florida, evoking Republican lawmakers who want to limit and even suppress the right to abortion throughout the country.

He then lashed out at “laws devised by extremists in some states, including Florida,” to restrict the voluntary termination of pregnancy.

This state, whose governor is a rising star of the American right, prohibits abortion after 15 weeks. In total, some 20 states governed by the Republican Party took advantage of the loophole opened by the Supreme Court – to which Trump took a conservative turn – to limit or prohibit abortion.

The family planning organization Planned Parenthood highlights that the majority of American women are in favor of the right to abortion and estimates that in the United States one woman in three lives in a state that limited that right.

Your president, Alexis McGill-Johnson, estimated that “what happens to the patients and medical personnel is terrible, but it also drives our movement (…) We will be there and we will fight. Every day”.

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Not negociable

Biden insisted in his tweets that “the right of women to choose is not negotiable” and asked Congress to pass a law with the terms of the jurisprudence “Roe vs. Wade”, binding on the states.

“We will not back down. And we know that the battle will not be over as long as we do not guarantee this right” to abortion in a federal text, the Democratic vice president said for her part.

But they have little chance of being heard: in Congress, the House of Representatives has just narrowly passed into Republican hands while in the Senate the Democratic majority is minimal.

The pressure from the religious right on this issue that has divided the United States for decades continues. Thousands of abortion opponents marched Friday to demand a nationwide ban from Congress.

For now, Biden it has had to make do with issuing decrees of limited scope since the June adverse ruling. This Sunday, for example, the White House promised to protect access to mifepristone-based pills, which make it possible to terminate a pregnancy in the first weeks.

With information from AFP Agency.