In America the wind blows anti-abortion

Abortion again the protagonist in American politics. The new Republican senators and deputies, arrived in Congress with the laws of 2010, and often sponsored by Tea Parties, led Washington to radically anti-abortion slogans and ideas. "It 'a phenomenon which I have never witnessed in 12 years of professional activity," says Elizabeth Nash, a researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, a group that deals with women's rights.

Texas becomes mandatory by law ultrasound before an abortion

The federal government of Texas passed a law which would require women considering an abortion in state hospitals and clinics required to undergo an ultrasound before the interruption of pregnancy, despite strong criticism from the opposition who make the law "intrusion government of the worst kind. " In spite of the Women's Day, celebrated yesterday in Italy and abroad with the International Women's Day to remember "the achievements of political, economic and social rights" of women in the world, the new Texas law it raises new questions about the real rights of women in Western democracies.

In America's increasingly strong antiabortistisono

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.

Use, for the Republicans the grain is now keeping promises

Difficulty in sight for the American Republicans. The U.S. Congress reopens, and the old Grand Old Party is grappling with the many promises and hopes scattered to the midterm elections last November. Now the Republicans control the House and will have a stronger presence in the Senate. But they will honor commitments made: the federal deficit reduction, reduction of the U.S.

government, opposition to abortion and gay rights. These are the themes that have mobilized a large and complex array of movement conservatives - liberals, Tea Party, nostalgic for the Cold War, religious fundamentalists - who have contributed to the Republicans. That have to face some grain.