By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram on Friday criticised the USA Excellent Court docket’s ruling that ended the appropriate to abortion, announcing when a country is hopelessly divided, non-elected judges can impose their prejudiced evaluations at the other folks and escape.
He additionally asserted that constitutional rights aren’t given via the court docket, they’re birthrights, and the court docket can’t remove a proper that it has now not given. His remarks got here after the USA Excellent Court docket ended the appropriate to abortion in a ruling that ended constitutional protections for abortion that were in position in The usa for almost 50 years.
The conservative-dominated US court docket overturned the landmark 1973 “Roe vs Wade” resolution that enshrined a girl’s proper to an abortion, announcing that particular states can now allow or prohibit the process themselves.
“For those who glance laborious, you’ll to find tears rolling down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty. Lately is a tragic and deeply disappointing day for liberty, equality, privateness and dignity — particularly of ladies,” Chidambaram stated in a sequence of tweets.
“Are you able to consider a girl bearing till complete time period and giving start to an undesirable kid; a kid of a rapist; a kid sowed via incest; a kid which the mum can’t come up with the money for to carry into this international or can’t come up with the money for to feed or carry; and a kid that won’t get any love in any respect,” he stated.
When a country is hopelessly divided, non-elected judges can impose their prejudiced evaluations at the other folks and escape, Chidambaram asserted. “Constitutional rights aren’t ‘given’ via the Court docket, they’re birthrights. The Court docket can’t ‘remove’ a proper that it has now not given,” he stated.