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Joe Biden calls to defend the “fundamental” right to abortion at the polls in the US.

the president of USA, Joe Bidencalled on Tuesday to defend the right to abortion at the polls and warned that if the Supreme Court annuls it, as a draft ruling suggests, “the entire range of rights” over private life would be threatened.

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If this ruling is approved, the abortion laws will depend on each of the states and “it will fall to the voters to choose” the officials who support the right to the voluntary termination of pregnancy procedure, he said. Biden in a statement after the text was leaked to the press.

Biden He also urged Congress to enshrine the straight to the abortion by law, the only way to overcome a potential Supreme Court challenge to the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which grants at the national level the constitutional guarantees that allow the interruption of pregnancy.

The president said he would “work to pass and sign into law” this regulation, but acknowledged that the conditions are not right with the Senate divided equally between Democrats and Republicans.

The Supreme Court confirmed that the draft opinion leaked on Monday a the press is “authentic”, but did not warn that it is not the “final” decision on the matter.

“If this decision stands, it’s really quite a radical decision,” he said. Biden to reporters before traveling to Alabama. “It is a fundamental change in American jurisprudence.”

“I am very concerned that we are going to decide, after 50 years, that a woman does not have the right to choose. But equally deep is the foundation used. It would mean calling any other decision related to the notion of privacy into question,” she added.

“A whole range of rights are in question,” Biden warned, warning of a “fundamental shift” in currently accepted positions on gay marriage, whether or not to have children, and how to raise them.

“Does this mean that Florida could decide to pass a law that says same-sex marriage is no longer allowed?” he asked.

Given the promulgation or preparation of very restrictive laws on reproductive rights in many states of the country, Biden he said in the statement that he had directed his advisers to study “a variety of possible outcomes in cases pending before the Supreme Court.”

“We will be ready when any ruling is issued,” he said.

“I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental, Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years, and the basic fairness and stability of our law demands that it not be repealed,” she noted.

Source: Elcomercio

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