Former tennis player Billie Jean King, football player Megan Rapinoe, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, the WNBA and the NBA, as well as several clubs from the men’s and women’s soccer leagues (MLS and NWSL), this Friday deplored the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the protection of the right to abortion.
Billie Jean King, tennis legend and tireless fighter for women’s rights, assured that “it is a sad day in the United States” and warned that the Supreme Court ruling “will not end abortion” but “it will end access to healthy and legal this vital medical procedure,” in a message on his Twitter account.
The Supreme Court ruling finds that the U.S. Constitution “does not grant” the right to abortion in effect since 1973 and restores the “people” and their “elected representatives” the power to legislate on this reproductive service, allowing each state to decide whether to keep it or ban it.
RAPINO, STRONG
“I am a white, wealthy, cisgender woman living in one of the most progressive cities in the world (Seattle) and protected not only by me and my resources, but also by this (indicating the USSF shield) Rapinoe said at a news conference, visibly shocked.
“Not everyone is counting on this. We know this will have a disproportionate impact on poor women, African American women, immigrant women, women in abusive relationships, women who have been raped, women and girls who have been raped by members of their own families, or who maybe they just didn’t make the best decisions,” emphasized the footballer.
“We know that the abortion ban does not prevent abortions, but rather safe abortions. (…) I can’t describe the sadness and the cruelty of this, I think cruelty is the most important point because this is not for life.” he said.
THE WORLD OF BASKETBALL, UNITED
The NBA and WNBA have released a joint statement saying that “freedom must be protected”.
“The NBA and WNBA believe that women should be able to make their own decisions about their health and future, and we believe that freedom should be protected. We will continue to fight for gender equality and the right to health, including that our employees have access to a reproductive health system regardless of location,” the note reads.
Sports stars such as LeBron James or Sue Bird, one of the greatest players ever in the WNBA, expressed their dismay at the decision.
LeBron James shared former US President Barack Obama’s message, in which he finds the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion “devastating”.
“The Supreme Court has not only overturned nearly 50 years of precedent, but relegated the most intensely personal decision anyone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues, affecting the essential freedoms of millions of Americans,” Obama said on his Twitter account. .
“Shattered” and the emoticon of a broken heart was the message Sue Bird published via the same social network.
His team, the Seattle Storm, said they feel “furious and ready to fight” and find it unacceptable that “people have been given the freedom to buy guns, while women have lost the freedom to determine their own future.”
Other NBA stars, such as Australian Ben Simmons of the Brooklyn Nets, joined the criticism.
“It’s one of the worst days of my American life,” Ben Simmons wrote on his Twitter account.
The WNBA Players Association released a statement assuring that the Supreme Court ruling “offers an unfair path to abortion bans that amplifies economic, social and political injustices and could lead to an increase in maternal mortality.” , in addition to destroying freedom of reproduction for all”.
FOOTBALL REGRETS ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS
The world of American football also joined in with unanimous criticism of the Supreme Court ruling. Teams from the NWSL, the women’s league and the MLS, the men, labeled the abortion decision an attack on human rights.
“Gotham FC strongly opposes the repeal of ‘Roe v. Wade’ and believes that reproductive rights are human rights. Not only should abortion be legal, but it should be accessible nationwide,” the team wrote to the NWSL.
“Freedom to decide our bodies is a fundamental right and impossible to negotiate,” assured the Orlando City of the MLS and the Orlando Pride of the NWSL.
THE OWNER’S DECISION
The United States Supreme Court, by a conservative majority, overturned the protection of the right to abortion, in effect since 1973, with a controversial decision.
The ruling was approved with the support of six of the nine judges of the U.S. Supreme Court and upholds a Mississippi state law that restricts abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
However, the conservative majority of the Supreme decided to go ahead and revoke the precedents set in the past by the court itself that protected that right.
Source: El heraldo
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