Michelle Obama gave an early speech on October 26 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the first of her campaign, in support of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. The former first lady of the United States warned of the devastating effects that the policies planned by Republicans would have to further restrict access to abortion, which no longer has constitutional protection since the Dobbs ruling handed down by the Supreme Court in 2022. The repression of abortion desired by the right is so severe that it threatens the health of women in general, considers Michelle Obama. This speech occurs in a campaign marked by gender polarization, between a female electorate that tends to support the left and a male vote that should lean more to the right.
“ (…) Allow me a moment to give you, especially you, the men who share our lives, a better idea of what could happen if we continue to dismantle our reproductive health system piece by piece, as Trump intends to do. I want you to understand the terrible effects, not only on abortion, but on women’s health in general.
If so many women and doctors are horrified by what is happening since Trump’s Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade [qui garantissait, avant d’être annulé en 2022, le droit d’avorter]There are serious reasons to be so. We see women who go to great lengths to travel to another state to receive the care they need. This same week, a major medical journal highlighted [le 21 octobre] that, since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, infant mortality in this country has increased largely because women are forced to carry fetuses that will not survive. In the United States, a woman spent twenty-two days in prison on suspicion of murder after suffering a miscarriage in her bathroom.
We see that doctors no longer know if they can treat an ectopic pregnancy. [On voit également] Doctors who are prohibited from providing adequate care to a woman until she is close enough to death, who can only act under the exception granted to preserve the mother’s life. [dans certains Etats ayant adopté des lois très restrictives, une dérogation prévoit parfois que le personnel médical peut pratiquer une IVG in extremis quand la patiente risque de mourir].
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