This Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court allows states to ban abortion, to criminalize it, to be able to send doctors who practice it to prison, to prosecute women who want an abortion even in their smartphone via geolocation. In Missouri, the local justice minister did not wait an hour to ban abortion. “A monumental day for the sanctity of life”he wrote.
For its supporters, this frantic prayer has existed for 50 years and the judgment of the Court legalizing abortion. But this is not only an outcome for the reactionaries and ultra-religious. One of the judges of the Court is already planning to question same-sex marriage and even contraception… All this, 24 hours after this same Court allowed all Americans to go out armed in the streets.
It is God’s decision.
Maximum restrictions on abortion for women, minimum restrictions on the carrying of weapons for cowboys: this is the portrait of a country which did not win the last election but which prospered under Trump’s mandate. then the tilting of almost the entire Republican Party behind the cultural extremism of the conspiratorial ex-President. A majority of Americans support abortion. But what does it matter to Trump and his parishioners. “It’s God’s decision” he commented.
If this counter-revolution is the result of the undermining of anti-abortionists, it is also the starting point of a new fight by America against itself. The symbol of a totally fractured country, not only after the political and electoral fight which almost turned into a coup. Here he is in a merciless cultural and religious war. A war that shows the rest of the world that the ravages of the far right do not end with the end of the mandate of its pack leader.