Protests against abortion ban / Facts were created in Alabama: A law came into force there, according to which abortions are generally prohibited.
“This decision must not last,” shouts the crowd and demands “legal abortions on request”. Thousands came to the Supreme Court in Washington yesterday holding up their placards. Some because they didn’t want to give up – Ellen, for example, a woman in her early 70s. On her sign is a quote from women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem: “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” She was in her early 20s when the court upheld abortion rights. She and people her age were very fortunate to have this opportunity, she says.
A few yards away, Paige, 26, is very proud that she belongs to a completely different generation, the one that overturned the nearly 50-year-old law because, “Abortion is currently the worst violation of human rights in the world USA”. And she doesn’t think much of regulations like the German deadline solution. All of these boundaries are arbitrary, the young woman says it is always the same child from conception to natural death.
Demonstrations and new laws / Abortion ban
In many cities in the USA there were demonstrations in the evening, elsewhere facts were created. A law immediately went into effect in Alabama banning abortion in general. Three clinics had to close, including the West Alabama Women’s Center.
Manager Robin Marty and her colleagues canceled all appointments and sent women home. “There came a minor with her mother, a victim of sexual assault,” Marty told NPR. “There’s no exception for her in Alabama now, she can’t get an abortion here.”
States can make their own decisions
Similar stories may have played out in a dozen other states. Bans also went into effect immediately in Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Obtaining an abortion will soon be difficult or impossible in more than half of the US states.
Because that is the essence of yesterday’s verdict: the decision on whether abortions are prohibited or permitted is now made entirely by the states.
Abortion ban: Complicated legal issues
And it’s not over yet, say experts like Mary Ziegler, a law professor in Florida. States could try to ban their citizens from traveling to have an abortion. These fights raise complicated legal issues that could wind up in the Supreme Court again, Ziegler told PBS.
Four Democrat politicians have now contacted the FTC. She is to initiate an investigation against the corporations Apple and Google because they collect and pass on data about whereabouts. It is feared that the privacy of women who seek an abortion is at risk.
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