US President Donald Trump signed a decree to 23 people prosecuted by the previous government in front of the press on Thursday for participating in demonstrations against abortion. These people “should not have been prosecuted,” he said, adding: “It is a great honor to sign this.”
The announcement comes on the eve of a large anti-abortion demonstration in Washington, called “march for life”. The 78-year-old billionaire must, according to the press, participate by videoconference, while vice-president JD Vance is expected on the spot.
Satisfy his partisan base
Donald Trump had deliberately remained vague on the politically burning issue of the right to abortion during his campaign. While the Christian right demands federal restrictions on the federal pregnancy ban, the Republican said they wanted to leave this competence to the American states.
-However, he welcomed himself on several occasions of having contributed, by his appointments to the Supreme Court, at the end of constitutional law to abortion decided in June 2022 by the highest American court. Following this reversal of case law, many conservative states have prohibited or very severely limited the use of abortion.
Donald Trump has decided since his inauguration on Monday a series of graces intended to satisfy his supporters base, starting with that, spectacular, granted to 1,500 people sentenced to having stormed the Capitole in January 2021. He also pardoned two police officers who had been convicted of an illegal chase at the end of which a black man died in 2020.
