Hello! On se retrouve aujourd’hui pour un dernier entraînement avant les oraux. Dans cet article, tu pourras t’entraîner sur un sujet d’actualité qui porte sur la question de l’avortement aux États-Unis. C’est un sujet assez sensible en ce moment, alors n’oublie pas de réviser ce thème. Tu pourras trouver un article pour tout réviser ici.
Avant de commencer à t’entraîner sur cette khôlle, tu peux revoir la méthode ici.
L’article sur l’avortement
Cet article est extrait du site internet de The Guardian (journal anglais) et a été publié le 3 mai 2022. J’ai coupé l’article, mais tu peux le trouver en entier en suivant ce lien.
US shaken to its core by Supreme Court draft that would overturn Roe v Wade
Joe Biden has warned that a leaked draft supreme court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, the 1973 case which guaranteed the right to abortion, would represent a huge change in America law and could imperil a wide range of other civil rights.
In a historic moment that shook the US to the core and highlighted jagged social and political divisions, the court confirmed the draft was authentic but said it did not “represent a decision by the court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case”.
The US president called the provisional court opinion “radical” and said the ruling, if handed down, would represent a “fundamental shift in American jurisprudence” and could imperil rights including same-sex marriage and access to contraception.
Politico published the draft by justice Samuel Alito on Monday night. The website said the draft was supported by four other right-wingers on a panel conservatives control 6-3.
On Tuesday the chief justice, John Roberts, called its leak a “betrayal of the confidences of the court” which could “undermine the integrity of our operations”, and promised an investigation.
The final ruling of the court will not be made until June.
The New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, warned that the court “isn’t just coming for abortion – they’re coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on, which includes gay marriage and civil rights.”
Biden, speaking to reporters on Tuesday morning, said the draft ruling had ramifications for “all the decisions you make in your private life, who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child, whether or not you can have an abortion and a range of other decisions [including] how you raise your child”.
The draft ruling would allow states to declare abortion illegal.
Protesters gathered outside the court on Tuesday, while demonstrations swelled throughout around the country – both in support of and against abortion rights. Thousands have joined rallies in New York, Boston, Nashville, Dallas, New Orleans and more. In San Francisco, a man was arrested after scaling the 60-floor Salesforce tower, in an apparent anti-abortion protest.
Outside the supreme court, some chanted “Abortion is healthcare” and carried signs reading “Justices get out of my vagina”, “Legal abortion once and for all” and “We won’t go back”. A smaller group chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Roe v Wade has got to go”. Amid tense exchanges, barriers were erected.
Under cloudy skies at the bottom of the steps leading up to the majestic marble columns of the supreme court building near the US Capitol, Haley Lund, from Woodbridge, Virginia, told the Guardian: “This terrifies me. I could not sleep, so I figured I should be here.
“This opens a floodgate for everyone … like the right to privacy, to due process, the right that we’re innocent until proven guilty. All of that can go away if this goes away.”
In a statement, Biden outlined how Democrats might fight back.
First, the president said, his administration would argue Roe was based on precedent and “‘the 14th amendment’s concept of personal liberty’… against government interference with intensely personal decisions”.
“I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental,” Biden said. “Roe has been the law of the land for almost 50 years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned.”
Biden said he had directed advisers to prepare responses “to the continued attack on abortion and reproductive rights, under a variety of possible outcomes”.
“We will be ready when any ruling is issued,” he said.
La proposition de corrigé
Since the beginning of the year, a new debate is up in the USA and it concerns the right to abort. Indeed, Politico, a US media, has published an article about a new project of the Supreme Court concerning abortion. As a reminder, women won this right 50 years ago, in 1973, but today this fondamental right is being questionned by a lot of politicians. This article, which was published in the British Daily The Guardian, deals with this burning issue that the leak has implied. Well, I will first sum up the article and then explain the wave of protests that take place in the country.
America is terrified because of the leaked draft from the Supreme Court. Indeed, it implies that the right women won in 1973 could be erased. The Court admitted that the draft, leaked by Politico, was a authentic one and could change the rights in the USA. But, it is not a final decision and a complete one as many ramifications did not appear in the document published. Even if this is a “betrayal of the confidences of the court that could undermine the integrity of the operations”, the final decision will be taken at the end of June.
Nevertheless, this draft created a wave of indignation. AOC, the NY Congresswoman, warned people that this problem actually hides a bigger one and that civil rights are jeopardized today. Protesters took the streets to protest and obligated Joe Biden to take position. He said that Democrats would fight back because it is the right for women to choose.
This article leads me to wonder if the place to women in the society has really been evolving.
Le commentaire
Tu as terminé la synthèse de l’article et tu peux maintenant passer au commentaire. Il s’agit d’élargir ta réflexion par rapport au sujet proposé. Le commentaire est assez libre, mais il doit quand même être en rapport avec le document. Voici une proposition de plan de commentaire pour cet article.
I. L’histoire de la femme aux États-Unis : de la conquête de l’ouest, à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en passant par l’obtention du droit de vote. De nombreuses femmes peuvent être citées dans cette partie, inspire-toi de cet article !
II. Les combats des femmes modernes pour le droit à l’avortement, à l’égalité et au respect. Pour alimenter ce paragraphe, tu peux jeter un œil à cet article sur l’avortement aux États-Unis !
III. Tous ces évènements posent aujourd’hui le problème du respect des droits privés des minorités (LGBTQIA+, BLM…), notamment à cause de la place importante des Républicains dans le système politique américain.
Bon courage pour cette dernière ligne droite !
