Tears rolling down cheeks of Statue of Liberty: P Chidambaram on US SC’s abortion ruling

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram on Friday criticised the US Supreme Court’s ruling that ended the fitting to abortion, saying when a nation is hopelessly divided, non-elected judges can impose their prejudiced opinions on the individuals and get away.

He additionally asserted that constitutional rights usually are not given by the courtroom, they’re birthrights, and the courtroom can’t take away a proper that it has not given. His remarks got here after the US Supreme Court ended the fitting to abortion in a ruling that ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place in America for almost 50 years.

The conservative-dominated US courtroom overturned the landmark 1973 “Roe vs Wade” choice that enshrined a lady’s proper to an abortion, saying that particular person states can now allow or prohibit the process themselves.

“If you look hard, you will find tears rolling down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty. Today is a sad and deeply disappointing day for liberty, equality, privacy and dignity — especially of women,” Chidambaram mentioned in a collection of tweets.

“Can you imagine a woman bearing until full term and giving birth to an unwanted child; a child of a rapist; a child sowed by incest; a child which the mother cannot afford to bring into this world or cannot afford to feed or raise; and a child that may not get any love at all,” he mentioned.

When a nation is hopelessly divided, non-elected judges can impose their prejudiced opinions on the individuals and get away, Chidambaram asserted. “Constitutional rights are not ‘given’ by the Court, they are birthrights. The Court cannot ‘take away’ a right that it has not given,” he mentioned.