After the Supreme Court’s decision to no longer guarantee the right to abortion, the State immediately forbidden to have an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
Le Monde
A 10-year-old girl, pregnant following rape, had to leave her state from Ohio to abort after the flip-flop of the Supreme Court, a police officer cited by media confirmed on Wednesday July 13 Americans. Its tragic history, initially reported by an Indiana gynecologist, was cited on Friday by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to criticize the decision of the High Court, on June 24, to no longer guarantee the right to the ‘Abortion.
The Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, whose state immediately after the Supreme Court’s decision, prohibited abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, had expressed doubts about its veracity. “It looks like an invention,” said the elected Republican. The girl was finally able to have an abortion on June 30 in the neighboring state of Indiana, where voluntary pregnancy interruptions (abortion) remain legal. “She was forced to leave her condition to go to Indiana to interrupt her pregnancy and perhaps save her life”, reacted Mr. Biden to the White House . “Ten years! Raped, six weeks pregnant, already traumatized, was forced to go to another state,” he added.
The story of the little girl crystallized the tensions around the right to abortion, which deeply divides the country.
no use of abortion in the event of rape
Before the decision of the Supreme Court, in April, Jean Schmidt, one of the representatives of the conservative state, said that a 13 -year -old girl could not have an abortion, even in the event of rape. “It’s a shame that it happens, but there is an opportunity for this woman, it doesn’t matter whether she is young or old, to decide what she is going to do to help this life to be a productive human being” , she estimated . Words that have aroused the indignation of democrats.
“A 10 -year -old girl is raped. The state forces her to remain pregnant and tells her to see this as” an opportunity “. It did not happen in Iran. It is not hypothetical. ‘arrived today in Ohio, “tweeted a democratic candidate at the Ohio State Capitol.
A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS RAPED. The State forces her to remain pregnant and tells her to consider it an “opportunity.”… Https://t.co/gvjblz04wr
The suspect arrested
Columbus police arrested a suspect on Tuesday and, during his appearance before a judge on Wednesday, an investigator confirmed the details of the tragedy, reported the daily Columbus Dispatch . The remains of the embryo are the subject of genetic tests to confirm the links with the suspect, added the police officer.
The agent, Jeffrey Huhn, explained to the magistrate that the mother of the victim had informed, on June 22, the local child protection services of his daughter’s pregnancy and that the latter had then seized the police. According to court documents consulted by the France-Presse agency, Gerson Fuentes, 27, was charged with “rape of minor under 13 years” for an assault perpetrated on May 12. He was placed in detention in a prison in Franklin. The Columbus police did not wish to react.
Since the judgment of the Supreme Court, a dozen conservative states have forbidden to abort on their soil. Among them, most of them provide an exception to protect the life of the pregnant woman, but not always in the event of rape or incest.