Wade ruling in favor of abortion rights in the United States and the decision of the Court's conservative justices was upheld by six votes to three, the fight for women's rights has begun once again with thousands of demonstrations across the country.
In view of this, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosisaid that the Supreme Court's decision is "deadly serious".
"Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved the GOP's dark and extreme goal of taking away women's right to make their own reproductive health decisions. Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party, and their vast majority on the Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers," the Democrat said.
He explained that with the Roe ruling out of the way, radical Republicans will continue their crusade to criminalize health freedom.
"In Congress, Republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban. In the states, Republicans want to arrest doctors for providing reproductive care and women for terminating a pregnancy. GOP extremists are even threatening to criminalize contraception, as well as in vitro fertilization and post-miscarriage care," she stressed.
In this regard, she recalled that a woman's fundamental health decisions are her own, in consultation with her doctor and loved ones, "not to be dictated by extreme right-wing politicians."
"While Republicans seek to punish and control women, Democrats will continue to fight fiercely to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law," he noted.
"This cruel sentence is outrageous and heartbreaking. But make no mistake: the rights of women and all Americans are on the ballot this November," she said.
It is worth noting that Missouri was the first state to ban abortion just minutes after the ruling.
The case «Roe vs. Wade»
The fight for women's reproductive rights and the right to decide about their own bodies begins in a historic way in U.S. law with a name that will now gain even more strength: Norma McCorvey, a waitress from Dallas who in the 1970s sued Henry Wade, the district attorney of Texas, in a historic lawsuit to claim her right to have an abortion.
In 1973 Texas law stated that abortion was prohibited, but 22-year-old Norma McCorvey, now known as Jane Roe, a pseudonym used in the laws to protect the plaintiff, who did not want to be pregnant because of economic problems, turned the laws against it upside down not only in that state but made it a constitutional right throughout the United States.
Hence, the lawsuit that served to consitutionally legalize abortion in the United States acquired its name, "Roe v. Wade".
While abortion was already approved in some U.S. states in 1973, such as California and New York, as well as in four other states, it was limited in 16 others, such as Texas, where Jane Roe resided.
It was in 1968 when Ronald Reagan, then Republican governor of California, signed the "Therapeutic Abortion Act" while in 1970 in New York City, the right to abortion was signed without the need for women to give any kind of explanation to the authorities as long as it was performed within the first two trimesters of gestation.
By July 1, 1970, the first abortion clinic would have opened in New York City.
In January 1973 the federal judges in the Northern District of Texas finally ruled seven votes to two in favor of the plaintiff.
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