Actualizaciones en vivo sobre el abortoEEUU sale de jornada de protestas y celebraciones

Un activista por el derecho al aborto, a la izquierda, discute con un activista contra el aborto frente a la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. el sábado. (Astrid Riecken/para The Washington Post)

Actualizado el 26 de junio de 2022 a las 12:22 p. m. EDT | Publicado el 26 de junio de 2022 a las 9:53 am EDT

Demonstrations celebrating and protesting Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade’s abortion protections continued to reverberate across the country Sunday. The demonstrations have been largely peaceful, although damage and temporary road closures were reported in some cities. More rallies were scheduled for Sunday.

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Abortion opponents are celebrating a long-sought victory for the conservative legal movement, one made possible by the presidency of Donald Trump. “This is a huge victory for the pro-life movement,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Trump — who nominated three of the six conservative justices on the court — whipped up his supporters at an Illinois rally Saturday night, and lawmakers were looking toward the midterm elections in November with varying focuses on the post-Roe landscape.

President Biden criticized the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the justices have “made some terrible decisions.” He is in Europe this week to meet with leaders of the Group of Seven nations.

Florida emerges as key battleground in state-by-state abortion fight

By Tim Craig12:18 p.m.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion decision is expected to make Florida an epicenter of the state-by-state fight over the issue in the coming months, raising the stakes for abortion rights advocates in the November election and complicating Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) efforts to manage his statewide and national political fortunes.

Within hours of the court’s decision, access to abortion emerged as a major fault line in America’s divisive cultural battles. Thirteen conservative states with “trigger bans” will outlaw abortion within 30 days of the ruling — and the procedure could soon be prohibited in several others. Lawmakers in heavily Democratic northern and western states are promising to become safe havens for women who want an abortion but are banned from receiving one at home.

But in Florida, where residents in a half-dozen relatively liberal urban counties are continually locked in political duels with the conservatives who dominate much of the rest of the state, the debate over abortion rights is just getting started. It’s a matter that will potentially have far-reaching consequences for millions of women in the South. The Sunshine State’s new ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy could emerge as one of the more flexible in the region after trigger laws and other unenforced abortion laws now before the courts may go into effect.

Democrats seize on abortion ruling in midterms as Republicans tread carefully

By Annie Linskey and Colby Itkowitz11:22 a.m.

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Democrats across the country are seizing on the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, with state and federal candidates seeking to turn anger about the decision into support at the ballot box, even as Republicans aim to keep attention on rising prices and crime less than five months before the midterms.

Led by President Biden, who declared Friday that “Roe is on the ballot” and “personal of freedoms are on the ballot,” Democrats on the front lines of the fight to keep the party’s slim congressional majorities have cast their campaigns as key parts of a larger battle to restore abortion rights prevent the rollback of other liberties. Democratic candidates for governor, attorney general and offices at the state level, where abortion laws will now be fully determined, pledged to put the issue at the forefront of their campaigns.

“We are facing a watershed moment for our constitutional rights,” said Cheri Beasley, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, a key battleground and a state that could draw more women seeking abortions from nearby states barring the procedure. Speaking on Friday at a park in Raleigh, Beasley warned, “I hope you all know that this doesn’t end this, that the threats don’t stop here.” She urged supporters: “This November let us run, not walk, to the polls.”

Republicans have largely praised the ruling, but some suggested different matters, such as the economic challenges confronting Americans, should take precedence, while others cheered the power of states and lawmakers to decide the future of abortion laws — amounting to a wider range of responses than Democrats, more united in their anger, have offered.

El gobernador defiende la 'ley de activación' de Arkansas que prohíbe casi todos los abortos

por Amy Wang10:54 a. m.

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El gobernador de Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, a la izquierda, y Matthew Shepherd, presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de Arkansas, observan cómo la fiscal general de Arkansas, Leslie Rutledge, firma una certificación el viernes para prohibir los abortos en todo el estado. (Stephen Swofford/AP)

El gobernador de Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson (R), defendió la ley de activación que entró en vigencia en su estado después de que la Corte Suprema anuló Roe v. Wade el viernes. La ley de Arkansas prohíbe los abortos en todos los casos excepto para salvar la vida de la madre.

Hutchinson, quien expresó su inquietud por la falta de excepciones por violación e incesto en la ley de activación de su estado, objetó el domingo cuando se le preguntó si se sentía cómodo con el hecho de que una niña de 13 años en Arkansas violada por un pariente ya no poder abortar en el estado.

“Preferiría un resultado diferente a ese. Pero ese no es el debate hoy en Arkansas”, dijo Hutchinson en “Meet the Press” de NBC News. “Podría ser en el futuro, pero por ahora, la ley se activó con una sola excepción. Si bien puede debatir si debería haber excepciones adicionales, cada estado tomará una determinación diferente. … Pero en este punto en particular, la única excepción en Arkansas es salvar la vida de la madre”.

Hutchinson también buscó asegurar a las mujeres en Arkansas que tendrían acceso continuo a la anticoncepción, incluida la píldora Plan B y los dispositivos intrauterinos o DIU.

“En Arkansas, el derecho a la anticoncepción es importante. es reconocido No se va a tocar”, dijo.

A Hutchinson, que no ha descartado una candidatura presidencial en 2024, se le preguntó si abogaría y promulgaría una ley que prohíba el aborto en todo el país, como dijo el exvicepresidente Mike Pence, otro posible candidato presidencial republicano para 2024.

“No creo que debamos volver a decir que debería aprobarse una ley nacional”, dijo Hutchinson. “Hemos luchado durante 50 años para tener este regreso a los estados. Hemos ganado esa batalla. Es volver a los estados. Dejemos que se resuelva allí”.

Planned Parenthood demanda para detener la prohibición del aborto de la 'ley de activación' de Utah

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Los manifestantes por el derecho al aborto se reúnen en el Capitolio de Utah después de que la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. anulara Roe v. Wade el viernes. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

La Asociación de Planificación de la Familia de Utah presentó una demanda el sábado para bloquear la "prohibición de activación" del estado sobre el aborto, que entró en vigor poco después de que la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. revocara Roe v. Wade .

La organización también está buscando una orden de restricción temporal para evitar que los funcionarios de Utah “hagan cumplir esta ley flagrantemente inconstitucional”, según una denuncia presentada ante el Tribunal del Tercer Distrito con sede en Salt Lake City.

Utah es uno de los 13 estados del país con "prohibiciones de activación" que fueron diseñadas para prohibir el aborto si Roe cayera. La prohibición del estado entró en vigencia el viernes por la noche, luego de que su abogado general legislativo certificara la decisión de la Corte Suprema.

Aunque la demanda para bloquear la prohibición se presentó al día siguiente, Karrie Galloway, presidenta y directora ejecutiva de Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU), dijo que la organización había estado planeando acciones legales mucho antes del fallo de la Corte Suprema.

“Hemos estado sobre aviso por un tiempo”, dijo Galloway a The Washington Post. “Hemos estado al tanto desde que la última administración logró tres nominaciones para la corte. Sabíamos cuál era la escritura en las paredes”.

Utah’s trigger ban, which the legislature passed in 2020, prohibits abortions with limited exceptions, such as if the procedure is necessary to prevent a pregnant person’s death or if a person is pregnant as a result of incest or rape.

With the law in effect, PPAU said in its court filing that it had canceled abortions for about a dozen patients Saturday. The organization has three health clinics that were licensed to provide abortion services, according to Galloway.

A women’s clinic run by two generations of women braces for the post-Roe era

By Kim Bellware10:33 a.m.

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DETROIT — The flowers seemed innocent enough, but Jakaiser Jackson wasn’t taking any chances.

The security guard at the Scotsdale Women’s Center in Michigan’s biggest city stopped the delivery before it could even reach the building’s outer vestibule.

Abortion clinics like this one have long been a target for protests and violence, so Jackson and others are extra vigilant about who comes inside and even what packages are accepted. Protesters rarely show up armed, but they do harass employees and patients.

“It’s like the devil comes in,” Jackson said of the protesters, who scream that the women are killers murdering babies. “When those ladies keep walking and don’t pay them no attention, that’s when they get real cruel.”

After the Supreme Court on Friday overturned the fundamental right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade, abortion clinics like this one in states where, at least for now, the procedure remains legal are even more on edge.

Michigan is one of several states that have unenforced pre-Roe abortion bans that probably will become a target in determining whether access remains legal.

A ban would pose an existential threat to clinics like Scotsdale, where patients have come for half a century to get reproductive health care in a safe and welcoming environment. The clinic has been run since the late ’90s by two generations of reproductive health care providers. Sam, Scotsdale’s executive director, bought the facility with her mother, Kathy, who worked in clinical care since the ’70s. The Washington Post is not identifying the last names of both women because of safety concerns.

For the mother and daughter, the post-Roe landscape is also worrying at a personal level. Kathy said she’s mostly blocked out the memories of when she felt the most scared to work as an abortion provider. Now, her fears are for her daughter.

Graham tells Garland to put people ‘in jail’ for protesting at justices’ homes

By Maxine Joselow10:32 a.m.

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Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to arrest protesters outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.

“I’m urging Merrick Garland to start putting people in jail who show up to the justices’ home to try to intimidate them and their family,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Abortion rights advocates on Friday protested outside the Virginia home of Justice Clarence Thomas. Members of the crowd called the justice’s wife, Virginia “Ginni" Thomas, an “insurrectionist,” referring to her efforts to overturn the 2020 election and her attendance at a “Stop the Steal” rally before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. A small crowd of protesters also gathered outside the Maryland home of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch on Saturday.

Earlier this month, President Biden signed a bill to provide around-the-clock security to the families of Supreme Court justices. The measure passed shortly after the leak of the draft Roe opinion.

Ocasio-Cortez wants investigation of justices who she says lied under oath

By Amy Wang10:21 a.m.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate Supreme Court justices who she says lied under oath during their confirmation hearings with regard to Roe v. Wade.

Days ago, Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) had suggested that Brett M. Kavanaugh and Neil M. Gorsuch had misled them in private meetings during their confirmation process about not overturning Roe v. Wade.

On NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez noted that such misleading comments would constitute a “crisis of legitimacy” in the Supreme Court, particularly after the justices issued a ruling “that deeply undermines the human and civil rights of the majority of Americans.” She added that lying under oath should be an impeachable offense for a Supreme Court justice.

“There must be consequences for such a deeply destabilizing action and hostile takeover of our democratic institutions. To allow that to stand is to allow it to happen,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And what makes it particularly dangerous is that it sends a blaring signal to all future nominees that they can now lie to duly elected members of the United States Senate in order to secure … confirmations and seats on the Supreme Court.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who is not a member of the House Judiciary Committee, also criticized Justice Clarence Thomas for not recusing himself in Supreme Court cases involving the 2020 presidential election after it emerged that his wife pursued efforts to overturn the election’s results. In March, Ocasio-Cortez had also called for an investigation of Thomas’s potential conflicts of interest and suggested he could be impeached.

American Psychological Association condemns SCOTUS abortion decision

By Kelsey Ables10:21 a.m.

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The American Psychological Association (APA) has condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, saying it will exacerbate the mental health crisis in America. In a statement released Friday on its website, the organization, which represents more than 130,000 psychology professionals in the U.S., expressed “deep concern” and “disappointment,” noting that the ruling goes against both precedent and science.

“We are alarmed that the justices would nullify Roe despite decades of scientific research demonstrating that people who are denied abortions are more likely to experience higher levels of anxiety, lower life satisfaction and lower self-esteem compared with those who are able to obtain abortions,” APA President Frank C. Worrell said in the statement.

The organization’s remarks come amid nationwide protests in response to the decision, which is expected to result in 13 states banning abortion (with many more to follow) and rising concerns about a potential nationwide ban. The statement from the APA stands in contrast to claims made by antiabortion activists, who have long pointed to mental health problems in their arguments, claiming that the procedure leads to adverse psychological outcomes. The science, according to the APA, strongly suggests otherwise.

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Actualizaciones en vivo sobre el abortoEEUU sale de jornada de protestas y celebraciones

Florida emerges as key battleground in state-by-state abortion fight

Democrats seize on abortion ruling in midterms as Republicans tread carefully

El gobernador defiende la 'ley de activación' de Arkansas que prohíbe casi todos los abortos

Planned Parenthood demanda para detener la prohibición del aborto de la 'ley de activación' de Utah

A women’s clinic run by two generations of women braces for the post-Roe era

Graham tells Garland to put people ‘in jail’ for protesting at justices’ homes

Ocasio-Cortez wants investigation of justices who she says lied under oath

American Psychological Association condemns SCOTUS abortion decision

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domingo, 26 de junio de 2022

Florida emerges as key battleground in state-by-state abortion fight

Democrats seize on abortion ruling in midterms as Republicans tread carefully

El gobernador defiende la 'ley de activación' de Arkansas que prohíbe casi todos los abortos

Planned Parenthood demanda para detener la prohibición del aborto de la 'ley de activación' de Utah

A women’s clinic run by two generations of women braces for the post-Roe era

Graham tells Garland to put people ‘in jail’ for protesting at justices’ homes

Ocasio-Cortez wants investigation of justices who she says lied under oath

American Psychological Association condemns SCOTUS abortion decision

Roe v. Wade and abortion access in America

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