The voice of women remains strong and powerful, and is raised not only by the United States to protest and oppose the Supreme Court’s choice to cancel the Roe ruling, which sanctioned the possibility of resorting to abortion in the United States in the last 50 years. There are many – and not just women of course – all over the world who take sides against this dangerous loss of rights and their own self-determination.
“Today is a very, very dark day for women in the United States,” she said last night from the Glastonbury Festival stage. Billie Eilish: “I’m talking because I can’t bear to think about it anymore,” but I’m also there Taylor Swift, Cher, Mark Ruffalo joining to the powerful voice and words of the former first Lady Michelle Obama who published a long message: “I am heartbroken today,” he begins. And he continues “I am heartbroken for the people in this country who have just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their bodies. I am heartbroken that we may now be destined to learn the painful lessons of a time before Roe became law, a time when women risked losing their lives to illegal abortions, ”concluding with an invitation not to give up. “Our hearts may be broken today, but tomorrow we must stand up and find the courage to continue working to create the more just America we all deserve.”
Even in Italy the voices of politicians, public figures and entertainment have raised. From Alessandro Gassmann to Emma Bonino, Alessandro Zan, Marco Cappato, Laura Boldrini while protests continue in American streets and squares: in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston but also in Austin, Texas, where one of the most prohibitive laws on voluntary termination of pregnancy is already in force. “This has been a 30-year struggle to overturn the fundamental rights of women and people to make decisions about their bodies,” she told the Guardian Sara Kugler of Washington DC, demonstrating outside the courthouse building. “There is no going back. There is no answer but indignation and action“.
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1/14Michelle Obama, “My heart is broken”
From his Instagram profile
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Harry Durrant / Getty Images4/14Billie Eilish: “Today is a really, really dark day for women in the United States”
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5/14Benedetta Porcaroli
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6/14Cher: “I can’t contain my anger”
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7/14Cathy la Torre, “Voting counts”
«The Supreme Court of the United States overturned the historic 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which recognized the right to abort even in the absence of health problems of the woman, the fetus and any other circumstance that was not the free choice of the woman.
After that sentence, all states had to comply with the principle that abortion is a constitutionally guaranteed right. 50 years later, the Supreme Court, with conservative majority judges, including 3 appointed by Trump when he was president, canceled this constitutional right and 50 years of women’s right to self-determination.
What will happen now?
We go back 50 years and every single state will be free to apply its own law on the matter. Before the ruling of 73 in half of the states abortion was a crime, so it could not be practiced under any circumstances. In 10 states it was only legal if it posed a danger to the woman, in case of rape, incest or fetal malformations. Some estimates predict that abortion will no longer be guaranteed in at least 26 states. It is about 40 million women!
Let’s always remember:
VOTING MATTERS BECAUSE RIGHTS ARE NOT FOREVER.
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8/14Laura Boldrini: «We protect rights under attack! “
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9/14Taylor Swift: “It terrifies me to know we’re at this point”
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10/14Mark Ruffalo: “These religious fanatics must be stopped”
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11/14Emma Bonino: “Abortion at risk even in Italy”
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12/14Alessandro Gassmann: “The darkest period in Western history”
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13/14Rula Jebreal: “What country did America become because of Trump?”
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14/14Marco Cappato: “Draw strength so as not to take rights for granted”
Source: Vanity Fair
