LeBron James responded to a message from Obama on his Twitter account. Photo. AFP.
Billie Jean King Y Lebron James It was some of the heavyweights in American sport who came out against Friday’s ruling by the US Supreme Court which repealed the country’s constitutional right to abortion since 1973.
The former tennis player, winner of 39 Grand Slam titles, expressed himself on his Twitter account: “The Supreme Court has overturned (the sentence) Roe vs. Wade, which has been protecting the right to abortion for almost 50 years”, he begins. saying. .
And he added on the social network: “This decision will not end abortion. What will end is safe and legal access to this vital medical procedure. It is a sad day in America“.
The Lakers star responded to a message from Obama. Photo: AP
Along the same lines, the NBA star Lebron James shared a message from former President Barack Obama that he sees how “devastating“the supreme court ruling on abortion stating that”it attacks the essential freedoms of millions of Americans“.
The Los Angeles Lakers intern wasn’t the only one in the basketball world to denounce this controversial measure. Sue Birdone of the best players in the WNBA, also expressed her disgust on social media, sharing a one-word post: “in pieces“He added a broken heart emoticon to the message.
In another post, he states that this decision “will fall on the poorest and most vulnerable patients in the country”. On the other hand, his team, the Seattle storm, he said he felt “angry and ready to fight”. In addition to considering it intolerable that “people have gained the freedom to buy weapons while women have lost the freedom to decide their own future”.
Billie Jean King also spoke out on her Twitter account. Photo: Twitter.
Australian point guard Ben Simmons of the Brooklyn Nets is another NBA player who has joined in the critics. “It is one of the worst days of my life in America“he wrote on his Twitter account.
The WNBA Players Association has released a statement assuring that the court ruling “offers an unfair path to banning abortion that reinforces economic, social and political injustices and could lead to increased mortality of mothers, as well as destroy reproductive freedom for all ”.
Furthermore, the statement concludes by emphasizing the importance of protecting democracy: “We must vote as if our lives depended on it. Because it depends on it”, concludes the text.
The football environment was not excluded and even came out in droves to speak out against the sentence.
“Gotham FC is vehemently opposed to the repeal of ‘Roe v. Wade’ and believes reproductive rights are human rights. Not only should abortion be legal, but it should be accessible across the country,” the squad. League.
Ben Simmons Base also spoke out against the controversial decision. Photo: AP
Meanwhile, the Orlando City of the MLS and the Orlando Pride of the NWSL stated: “Freedom of decision over our body is a fundamental right and impossible to negotiate”.
A sign that in the American sporting world many teams have classified the decision as an attack on human rights.
The Supreme Court ruling finds that the United States Constitution “does not grant” the right to abortion in effect since 1973 and restores the authority to legislate on this reproductive service to the “people” and their “elected representatives”, which it will allow each state to decide whether to keep it or ban it.
The ruling by the Conservative-majority United States Supreme Court was passed with the support of six of the nine judges in the highest U.S. court and supports a Mississippi state law that restricts abortion after 15 weeks of gestation.
However, the conservative majority of the Supreme has decided to go further and revoke the precedents established in the past by the same court that protected this right.
With information from EFE.
Source: Clarin
