White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre on Saturday condemned “the potentially catastrophic, dangerous and unacceptable consequences” of a Friday decision by an Arizona court, which according to US media revived a 19th-century law that almost totally banned the abortion.
“If this decision is confirmed, health workers will face up to five years in prison if they comply with their duty of care; rape and incest survivors would be forced to have children by their aggressors; and (pregnant) women with health problems would face terrible risks,” Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
The law brought more than a century ago
Kellie Johnson, Pima County Judge in Arizona, issued a decision on Friday that caused a stir in the United States, where access to voluntary termination of pregnancy, always a politically hot topic, is at the center of the campaign for the legislative elections of november. elections.
The magistrate bases her sentence on a recent decision of the very conservative US Supreme Court, which at the end of June dynamited the right to abortion that its jurisprudence guaranteed since 1973 throughout the American territory.
Republican Governor Doug Ducey has indicated that he considers that after this change in jurisprudence, it is a law approved to prohibit abortions from 15 weeks of pregnancy that would anticipate previous texts, but this interpretation does not enjoy consensus. The judge, she, considered that the decision of the high court made a clean sweep, and returned the law on the matter to what it was before 1973.
This has as a consequence, according to several American media, the return to the validity of extremely restrictive texts dating from 1864 and 1901, before American women had the right to vote and even before this western state was officially united, in 1912 , to the United States.
Several conservative US states have implemented full or partial abortion bans after the Supreme Court ruling.
The Democratic Party, led by President Joe Biden, hopes to mobilize voters to defend access to abortion at the polls, during the mid-term elections in November, which will partially renew the Senate and completely renew the House of Representatives.
Source: BFM TV
