The United States Supreme Court has ruled overturning a ruling 50 years ago that allowed women to have abortions. Prohibition and permitting abortion rights are left to each state. The decision was criticized by several parties including Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda.
Previously, as quoted by us from the BBC, abortion has actually been legalized in the United States for a long time through a legal decision in 1973, which is often referred to as the Roe vs Wade case.
The decision to scrap it, which was just issued, gave Republicans and religious conservatives a crucial victory an important victory who wanted to limit or even completely ban abortion. Babies are judged to be fully given a chance to live.
Bill Gates on Twitter criticized the decision. "This is a sad day. Reversing Roe vs Wade is an unacceptable and unfair setback. And puts the lives of women, especially the most disadvantaged," he wrote.
Melinda Gates expressed a similar criticism on Twitter. The ex-wife of Bill Gates considers that prohibiting or restricting abortion is a government intervention that should not be carried out by the government against women.
"Today, a government where women have never had an equal voice is reaching out to the most private corners of women's lives to tell the choice for their bodies is no longer theirs. This is America doing a major setback," he also wrote on Twitter.
Melinda also hopes that more women will be heard. "That's how we can create a future where decisions are made by women, not by women." These two figures are known as defenders of women's rights.