US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Speaks About the 'Abortion Ban'

The United States Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, made statements about the Supreme Court's preparations to rule on the right to abortion. She claimed that denying women the rights to abortion would have "extremely negative" economic consequences in the United States.

Speaking at the Senate Banking Committee, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made statements about the Supreme Court's preparation to overturn the nearly 50-year-old decision that constitutionally guaranteed the right to abortion. In her assessment, Minister Yellen said, "I believe that annulling the right to abortion will do a lot of damage to the economy and will set women back decades." Supreme Court prepares to repeal the law protecting the right to abortion In the draft decision published by the American Politico news website on May 2, in the draft opinion written by one of the conservative judges of the court, Samuel Alito, the decision known as the "Roe-Wade decision" of 1973 and which formed the basis of a constitutional right in the USA, was clearly wrong and it should be removed. The leaked draft opinion says the Roe-Wade decision is "clearly wrong", "extremely weak in reason" and has "detrimental social consequences". It is also stated in the text in question that "the right to abortion has no rooted place in the history and traditions of the country".