Exclusive: human rights lawyer criticizes the supreme court and says new law will ‘make abortion unsafe and deadly’
Reem Alsalem, the UN’s independent monitor on violence against women, was also scathing of the supreme court’s decision to allow the Texas law to stand. The UN special rapporteur accused the five rightwing justices who formed the majority – who include“Through this decision the supreme court of the United States has chosen to trample on the protection of women’s reproductive rights, thereby exposing them and abortion providers to more violence,” Alsalem told the Guardian.
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