US Democrats react to abortion law overturn

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Abortion opponents celebrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022.
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By Chiagozie Nwonwu

Democratic Party politicians and liberals in the United States reacted with horror as the country’s Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturna landmark 1973 judgement that ushered in abortion rights across the North American country known as Roe vs Wade.

Roe vs Wade refers to a decision of the US Supreme Court that the country’s constitution protects the liberty of a pregnant woman to choose to have an abortion.

Liberal politicians and women’s rights groups have long hailed Roe Vs Wade as the arbiter for access to safe, legal and effective abortions. However, fears that the law will be upturned, as eventually happened today, became palpable as three conservative judges were appointed by former President Donald Trump. The three judges; Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barret, all voted to overturn Roe Vs Wade.

Former President Barrack Obama tweeted after the ruling that “the Supreme Court not only reversed 50 years of precedent” but “attacked the essential freedoms of millions of Americans”.



His Wife Michelle Obama tweeted that she is “heartbroken”.

Several other democrats and liberals weighed in with President Joe Biden calling the ruling a “very solemn moment for the United States”.

However, the reception was much warmer among Republican politicians, with Liz Cheney, who recently broke with her party to participate in the probing of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots, saying she has always been pro-life and believes the ruling has returned the power of deciding about abortion rights to the states.

Ms Cheney’s views are shared by many republicans and already, Republican-governed states have started pushing back on abortion rights. CNN reports that 21 states in the United States have laws or constitutional amendments already in place that would make them certain to attempt to ban abortion rights.

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a long-time advocate of women’s rights, reacted to the ruling by calling on Americans to channel their anger toward fighting for abortion rights in individual states, starting with Michigan and Kansas.


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