The Supreme Court said the decision “will save millions of innocent lives.”
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History of the US Supreme Court end abortion rights nationwide Friday drew unusual criticism from some of America’s closest allies and fueled a global trend toward more liberal reproductive rights.
The decision comes a day after the Supreme Court also lifted some modest restrictions on guns – an issue that, along with the US’s imposition of the death penalty, has long shocked Western nations. Other West.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson – a Conservative who worked closely with former president Donald Trump, whose judicial nomination paved the way for Friday’s decision – said the Supreme Court’s decision would have “big impact” around the world.
“I think it’s a huge setback. I’ve always believed in women’s right to choose and I’ve stood by that, and that’s why the UK has such legislation,” Johnson said in visit to Rwanda.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced the decision to cross the border as “appalling”.
“No government, politician or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter.
French President Emmanuel Macron voiced “solidarity with women whose freedoms are challenged today” by the US Supreme Court, while Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said legal and safe abortion is basic rights.
“Depriving women of individual rights is a backlash to decades of hard work,” says Linde.
Among the few world leaders who could be backed by the ruling is Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of Trump and his country’s Protestants, who took to Twitter hours before decided to denounce an 11-year-old girl’s abortion. It was the result of rape.
US ‘outlier’
US President Joe Biden himself also expressed the view that the highest court has “made the United States a more optimistic country among the developed nations of the world” when he vowed to continue efforts force to ensure legal abortion.
Biden made his remarks on the eve of a flight to a summit in Germany, which has just repealed a Nazi-era law restricting the information doctors and clinics can provide about abortions.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasized in a statement Friday night that his agency remains “fully committed” to helping provide access to reproductive health services around the world and to its staff.
Traditionally Catholic Irish overturned the abortion ban in a 2018 referendum, and Latin America, long a stronghold against abortion, is also moving towards liberalizing its laws.
Colombia in February legalized abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, and Chile shortly thereafter said it would write in its constitution an abolition of abortion.
Mexico last year had its own historic Supreme Court decision – declaring the ban on abortion unconstitutional.
The United States was one of the first countries to grant abortion rights nationally, with Roe v. Wade’s 1973 decision overturned Friday after years of campaigning by opponents.
The United States has also gone further in terms of coverage of abortion rights during pregnancy, although advocates insist that few doctors perform late pregnancies, except in exceptional circumstances. .
Representative Mike Waltz, a Republican, said that the US is “one of the few countries in the world that allows abortion on demand, comparable to authoritarian regimes like China and North Korea.”
“Even most European countries maintain some restrictions on abortion,” he said in a statement.
According to him, the Supreme Court’s decision “will save millions of innocent lives.”
To the anger of Republican administrations, some support groups have advocated legal abortion, arguing that banning it would only make the procedure less safe and put women’s lives at risk. ro.
David Miliband, chairman of the International Rescue Committee and former UK foreign secretary, said the Supreme Court’s decision “marks a dark day for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy not only in the United States”. United States but all over the world.”
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