It 'was the weekend of remembrance, protest, of celebration. In the United States was the weekend that marked the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling in which the Supreme Court in 1973 established the right of women to abortion. And now as then, America is divided. Many have gathered in churches and prayed for a total ban on abortion.Others asked to defend and expand women's rights. The culmination of the mobilization will be today, Monday, with the traditional "March for Life" in Washington and the arrival of tens of thousands of anti-abortion. The divisions and wounds that still mark the United States with regard to termination of pregnancy were back out in the Declaration of Washington politics.
President Barack Obama has said that Roe v. Wade protects women's health and reproductive freedom. " To the Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, the Supreme Court "tore the right to life that the Founding Fathers described in the Declaration of Independence." Irreconcilable positions, replicated in hundreds of other statements (Republicans and conservatives on the one hand, Democrats and other liberals), and that a herald the bloodiest battle yet in the coming months.
Beyond the words of the policy, it is a fact that the right of abortion in the United States, is now seriously threatened. "We are facing a real cultural change," announcing the enthusiastic members of "Americans United for Life, a pro-life. From their point of view, they are right. The midterm elections brought to Washington a troop even larger group of deputies and senators, anti-abortionists.
At this point are 29 governors opposed to the interruption of pregnancy (had 21 before the election.) And in 15 states, governors and local parliaments same orientation pro-life. If the debate in Washington is still largely theoretical, it is at the local level that the right to abortion comes every day low.
In Nebraska was voted a law forbidding abortion after the 20th week of gestation (traditionally, the limit is between 22 and 24 weeks). According to lawmakers, "the fetus will suffer severe and excruciating pain." Although the scientific theory has been questioned, similar measures are being taken in Indiana, Iowa, New Hampshire and Oklahoma.
The Nebraska law has had to leave the only state that medical abortions at an advanced stage, with the result that now many women are forced to travel long and exhausting an induced abortion (one in four American women must travel for at least 75 km for an abortion). In other areas they prefer the psychological pressure.
Last year in Oklahoma introduced a rule that doctors and lab technicians should carry out the ultrasound with the screen facing the woman, which must be explained in detail the shape of the fetus. Kentucky, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, Texas, Virginia think at least the requirement for the woman who decides to abort, to undergo a final ultrasound.
Where psychological pressures against women were not enough, we turned to abortion doctors. The last serious incident was the murder of George Tiller in Kansas in 2009 by a militant anti-abortion (Tiller ran one of the few clinics in the Midwest that offered abortions after the 20th week.
The clinic was closed after his death ). But threats and intimidation are still everywhere. Are 6100, 1977, reported acts of violence against providers of abortion services. Finally there remain economic influences. In the U.S. you can not use federal money to fund abortion. And several states have adopted or are adopting, laws to ban abortion by health insurance policies imposed by the health reform Barack Obama.
"So it's a barrage of posts and constraints that make it increasingly difficult to abortion, and explaining the enthusiasm of thousands of anti-abortion protesting at this time. "We are worried. Those times are crazy, a lot of bad things can happen, "said Emily Stewart of Planned Parenthood, a pro-choice.
Roberto Festa
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