Jacinda Ardern has denounced the US Supreme Court’s “very sad” decision to reverse abortion rights.
Following the abolition of constitutional protections for abortion in the United States, the Prime Minister of New Zealand declared that the world must advance and not “go backwards.”
She stated in a statement on Saturday that it was “very sad” to witness the elimination of a woman’s fundamental right to control her own body.
“Here in New Zealand, we recently passed legislation to regard abortion as a health issue rather than a criminal one and decriminalize it.”
The fundamental idea that a woman has the freedom to make her own decisions underlies that transformation.
“It feels like a loss for women everywhere to see that idea suddenly lost in the United States.”
Grace Tame added her voice to the discussion by disclosing a horrifying specific about the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her high school teacher.
“Today, a piece of democracy died.” Likewise, women feel free. globally,” she tweeted.
Before I lost my virginity to a 58-year-old pedophile who raped me, sometimes without protection, I had maybe 4 periods.
Some people have their womanhood snatched from them before they even become women. And there is no choice there.
Following the US Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which established women’s constitutional right to an abortion by making the procedure available nationwide, the sexual abuse survivor’s admission became public.
As a result of the decision, states will have the authority to determine whether to forbid abortions.
13 states have passed “trigger legislation” that will outlaw abortion almost immediately after the US Supreme Court’s decision: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
It is anticipated that 26 states will outlaw the surgery altogether.
As a result, women who become pregnant unintentionally will no longer have a choice but to go to a state where abortion is permitted, purchase abortion pills online, or turn to risky illegal means of ending their pregnancies.
According to research, women who are younger, poorer, and of African American descent will probably be disproportionately impacted by an abortion ban.
The typical abortion patient is in their 20s, doesn’t have a lot of money, and has one or more children, according to senior researcher Rachel Jones of the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, who spoke to BBC News.
According to the official categories of poverty used in the US, 75% of women who choose to have an abortion are low-income or impoverished.
They would therefore probably be unable to travel to find safe methods of pregnancy termination.
Due to greater access to contraception and reduced sexual activity, reported abortion operations in the US have considerably dropped over the past ten years.
The Supreme Court’s decision was denounced as “un-American” by US President Joe Biden, who said that Friday was “a terrible day for the court and the country.”
The overturned decision, according to him, was “wrong, excessive, and out of touch.”
He declared that the fight for abortion rights “is not over” and accused the court of “expressly taking away a constitutional right that is so fundamental to so many Americans.”
Additionally, Biden pledged to defend a woman’s freedom to travel across states to obtain an abortion.
Ms. Tame is a vocal supporter of sex assault victims.
When she was just 15, her former math instructor, Nicolaas Bester, who was 58 at the time, sexually attacked and raped her.