Friday, January 31, 2025

Against the scandalous setback in free choice

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Photo: Jiroko Nakamura

There is a photograph from the Getty Images agency that makes my heart and stomach turn: at a recent demonstration ? after the leak of the draft of the Supreme Court of Justice of the United States that seeks to revoke a decree that allows the free choice of a legal and safe abortion, in force since 1973 and known as Roe vs. Wade?, some young girls hold wire hangers, of the kind used to hang clothes, while on their bodies or on their T-shirts you can read: