Right to abortion, the US Senate blocks the measure to save him

The Democrats’ attempt to save the right to abortion ended in the bud. The law presented to the Senate, in response to the closing position of the Supreme Court, did not overcome the obstacle and was rejected with 51 votes against and 49 in favor in what was a historic vote. The result was announced after moderate Senator Joe Manchin, confirming himself as a thorn in the party’s side, said he would vote with the Republicans again. But even if the West Virginia senator had voted yes, they would lack enough votes to get to 60, the minimum quota equivalent to nearly two-thirds of the senators to get the law passed. The Democrats had hoped to bring some Republicans to their side, but no signs came. The conservatives remained united on the no. Joe Biden, who until a few hours earlier had avoided speaking in order not to raise the tension, did not wait to condemn the Senate decision.

“Once again – said the president of the United States – while fundamental rights are at risk in the Supreme Court, the Republicans of the Senate have blocked the passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act, a law that protected access to health care. on reproduction “.” This failure – she added – comes at a time when the constitutional rights of women are the subject of an unprecedented attack and goes against the will of the majority of the American people. “The law was presented by the Democrats to counter the position of the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, intending to revoke the 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade which recognized the right for women to have recourse to abortion, regardless of the will of individual states. The contents of the device signed by the ultra-conservative judge Samuel Alito was revealed by the American site Politico, sparking reactions and protests across the country.

The Democrats had decided to prepare a law to make the right enshrined in a sentence into a federal text, thus circumventing the position of the Supreme Court. Failure at first scrutiny has cornered liberals, indicating that there is no exit strategy in Washington right now. Majority leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer, called the law “one of the most important in decades.” “The Democrats – was the response of the minority leader, Mitch McConnell – have chosen a radical and extremist line”. If in less than two months the Supreme Court will revoke the right to abortion, without exception, the New York Times commented in recent days, the United States will find itself in a more fundamentalist position than Saudi Arabia, where abortion is foreseen. at least for women at physical and mental risk. “All Americans – commented Schumer in the evening – will see how their representatives voted. And I believe that the republican party, the trumpian republican party, will pay the consequences at the electoral level ”.