Former President Donald Trump praised this Friday the decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade law, which recognized a woman's constitutional right to abortion and legalized it throughout the country, and affirmed that "God made the decision ".
In statements to the chainFox News The former president pointed out that theruling of the highest body of justice of the country "will work for everyone" – referring to potential voters who might be in favor of abortion – and means "following the Constitution and giving back rights when they should have been granted a long time ago.
During his presidency, Trump had appointed three conservative judges – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – to the Court, which could have influenced the result of this Friday's vote, which was decided 6-3 and marked a victory. transcendental for Republicans and religious conservatives who want to limit or ban the aforementioned medical procedure.
With these appointments, the Supreme Court became largely conservative, as it was already made up of President John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Clarence Thomas.
When questioned about it, he noted that "God made the decision."
Democratic-appointed justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan opposed the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but the disadvantage was overwhelming.
The son of the former Republican president, Donald Trump Jr., also celebrated the ruling of the justice body and attacked the so-called Radical Left, which he accused of trying to "destroy" the country.
"These great victories prove that although the Radical Left is doing everything in their power to destroy our country, their rights are being protected, the country is being defended, and there is still hope and time to save America!" he wrote on Twitter.
He added that "the liberals who are shouting the slogan 'my body, my choice' today because they are very angry that they may not be able to kill babies on demand, are the same radicals who wanted a mandatory Covid vaccination mandate throughout the country." so that every American can get a job and support their family.
Although theRepublicans and religious conservatives are celebrating the Court's ruling,thousands of women and democrats They took to the streets of the US this Friday to protest against the Supreme Court decision.
PresidentBiden He said that "it is a sad day for the court and for the country", while considering that "the health and lives of the women of this nation are now in danger."
For his part, the former presidentBarack Obama He described the decision of the highest body of justice in the United States as an attack on the country's fundamental freedoms.
"Today, the Supreme Court not only overturned nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision anyone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues, attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans," the Democrat wrote in his official Twitter account.
In the morning the court, in a 6-3 ruling driven by its conservative majority, upheld a Mississippi law backed by Republicans that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of gestation.
The Mississippi law had previously been blocked by lower courts on the grounds that it violated Supreme Court precedents on abortion rights.
The Jackson Women's Health Organization, the only remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, challenged the 2018 proposal and was supported by Democratic President Joe Biden's administration in the Supreme Court.
This regulation allows abortion when there is a "medical emergency" or a "serious fetal abnormality," but does not have an exception for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
Now, the judges considered that the decision in the famous "Roe v. Wade" case, which allowed abortions before a fetus was viable outside the womb – between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy – was erroneous because the United States Constitution United States does not specifically mention the right to abortion.
The ruling maintains that the Constitution "does not grant" this right and returns the authority to legislate on abortion to the "people" and their "elected representatives."
The political storm on the issue has been unleashed since May, after a draft was leaked indicating the justices' intention to overturn "Roe v. Wade."
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