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24.06.2022 / 19:01
Barack Obama Says Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade Decision Is an Attack on ‘The Essential Freedoms of Millions of Americans’
overturn Roe v. Wade, and former president Barack Obama called the decision an attack on American freedoms.“Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent,” Obama’s statement begins, “It relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues — attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.”“For more than a month, we’ve known this day was coming,” Obama continued, “but that doesn’t make it any less devastating.”The two-term president also offered actionable words, calling out Planned Parenthood, United States of Women and “many other groups” who have “been sounding the alarm on this issue for years — and will continue to be on the front lines of this fight.”Obama previously released a more lengthy statement when the draft decision of the Supreme Court leaked in May.“The consequences of this decision would be a blow not just to women, but to all of us who believe that in a free society, there are limits to how much the government can encroach on our personal lives,” Obama said.