The US gay celebration is overshadowed by the sentence for abortion

Although it was supposed to be a huge celebration, it quickly became a protest. The Supreme Court's Friday ruling, which annulled the US jurisprudence protecting abortion rights, was not just that. While destroying the house, the ultra-conservative majority took advantage of the opportunity to close the door on the personal freedoms Roe had relied upon against Wade.

Justice Clarence Thomas clarified that the precedent set by Justice Clarence Thomas means that "in future cases, we must reconsider all due-process precedents, including Griswold Lawrence and Obergefell." The first provides access to contraceptives, while the second allows for private sex, an antidote against the 16 states that ban oral sex and sodomy. The third permits same-sex marriages. Thomas argued that Friday's "any substantive precedent" on privacy decisions "are wrong", so we are obliged to correct it. He also left out the only precedent that could affect it, interracial marriages.

It's not surprising that Sunday's rain of paper and confetti fell on New York City's Seventh Avenue. "My body, my decision!" Women, men, and transsexuals shouted, as did the whole group of gender neutral, binary, and other variants. Cynthia Nixon, Sex And The City's lawyer-actress, failed to win the election and screamed at her top of her lungs during the parade in New York's West Village. In San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi, the Congressional Speaker, waved her red convertible and flipped Obama's slogan, "Don't Be Mad, Vote!" This year's one for Democrats is "Get Angry and Vote."

This parade was canceled by the pandemic in 2019. Many people left their leather and whips behind, ready to get out on the streets and celebrate what was private in their lives. How long? The question hung in the air. "When will it be time to get back in the closet?" Peter Johansson, a homosexual, asked anguish. He didn't know that he would have the responsibility of fighting again for the rights he believed he had won.

Solidarity was not the goal of making common cause with women. All rights that are demonized by extreme Christian right are in one boat. One that sinks. Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed safe harbors on federal land in the nine states that have severely restricted or banned abortion as of Friday. Because there was a precedent, abortion clinics could be built on federal land that women could access. Before Roe v. Wade, military women who become pregnant were required to leave the Armed Forces or abort their babies. They did it on federal bases that were exempt from state laws.

The decision to give each state the regulation of abortion has created a mess of laws. Many of these laws are being challenged in court, including those from Louisiana and Florida. Other 16 states have also rushed to pass legislation allowing abortion. Some progressive cities like Austin have even banned their own police and prosecutors from using city funds for prosecutions of women who have had abortions and those who helped them.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez proposes an "impeachment" of judges who were appointed by Trump under oath before the Senate to overturn Roe V. Wade. This would put an end the setback in civil rights conquest that the ultra-conservative majority on the court supposes. The court could be expanded to weaken conservative power. However, both solutions would require that the Democratic Party win an absolute majority of the chambers in November. According to the 'New York Times, even Donald Trump fears that the sentence will hurt his party's chances at the polls. Trump hopes that the majority will secure his return to the White House where he can finish the job he started.