WashingtonFormer President Donald Trump praised US Supreme Court ruling revoking a woman’s right to an abortion, said in an interview with Fox News that the decision would ‘work for everyone’. The Supreme Court on Friday voted 5-3 to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. Trump appointed three judges who voted in favor: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Connie Barrett.
Roe vs. Wade overturned: Former US President Donald Trump’s reaction
“It’s abiding by the Constitution, and giving rights back when they should have been given long ago,” Trump said, according to the channel. “I think, in the end, it’s something that will work for everyone.”
Republican Governor Charlie Baker signed an executive order in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision on abortion, which he said aims to protect access to reproductive health care services in Massachusetts.
The order prohibits state agencies from assisting in another state investigation into a person or business seeking to obtain or deliver legal reproductive health services in Massachusetts.
Friday’s result is expected to lead to a ban on abortion in nearly half of the states.
The order also protects Massachusetts providers who provide reproductive health care services from losing their professional licenses or obtaining other professional discipline based on potential out-of-state fees.
Under the executive order, the state will not cooperate with extradition requests from other states that are making criminal charges against individuals seeking, aiding, or performing legal reproductive health services in Massachusetts.
“In light of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, it is particularly important to ensure that Massachusetts providers can continue to provide reproductive health care services without concern that the laws of other states may be used in those services. can be done to intervene or sanction them. Providing services that are lawful in the Commonwealth,” Baker said in a written statement.
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