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DR for abortion demo in the USA: The Supreme Court is under attack because the majority supports the right to decide for themselves | Abroad | DR A leaked note sent shock waves through the United States this week. According to the leak, a conservative majority in the Supreme Court is ready to remove the right to abortion in the United States. In a suburb of Washington DC, people crowd together and light small candles. Several of the women have demonstrated throughout the week with signs and as: - My body, my choice! Now the square in front of the country's powerful body has been blocked off with meter-high fences and cement blocks . activist groups have chosen to publish the private addresses of the Supreme Court justices who, according to that memo, are ready to remove American women's constitutional right to abortion. A right that has existed for almost 50 years, since the decision in the case Roe v. Wade from 1973. So in the states where the judges live, protesters will now march past their homes. - They are taking my personal freedom from me. So now they have to find themselves in a personal visit from us, says Nicki Enfield, who has attended the demonstration. Measurements over a wide comb show that a significant majority of the American. But depends largely on where in the country the Americans live and how they vote. Opposition to abortion is greatest in the South and Midwest and among Republican voters. At the same time, the picture is far more complex when it comes to how extensive the right to abortion should be. The lawsuit Roe v. Wade defined a boundary called: 'Before a fetus is viable outside'. In practice, it has been defined for about 23-24 weeks. In Denmark, the limit is 12 weeks, everything above requires special approval. And if you dive into the American polls, there is a desire among several supporters to lower the limit, for example. The leak, a 98-page document written by the conservative Supreme Court judge Samuel Alito, is not about limit values. Wade, with the aim of eliminating abortion as a constitutional right. Americans have reported that during a closed-door vote, four other Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, voted for the same view. This means that five out of the nine Supreme Court justices - that is, a majority - reportedly is ready to remove abortion as a federal right. And it frightens generations of women who have turned up for demonstration.- This is the first step to removing rights that we have fought so hard to achieve, says Dorothy Boyer, who is the grandmother of Clara Glenn, who replies that she is terrified. If the constitutional right falls, it will be up to each state to decide. The political reality in Washington DC means that it is impossible to pass a national abortion law with the necessary majority in. So the divided United States will be even more divided. Abortion will be banned or severely banned in the Republican-controlled states. While it will continue to be legal in states with a democratic majority. In other words, a USA - divided into two very different worlds. A USA where women do not have equal rights - and where that inequality will greatly affect the poorest in society. Women who do not have the means and opportunity to travel to a state where it is allowed, in other words, largely blacks and Latinos. is one of the most powerful agencies in the United States. But also one of the most undemocratic. It has the last word on the question of whether laws and rights are in conflict with the American. One that is one of the world's most word-poor, and which therefore provides ample opportunity for interpretation. That is, what did the nation's 'fathers' really mean when they wrote it in 1787, before women had the right to vote. Americans would like to be considered apolitical, but are increasingly perceived as the opposite by most Americans. While in Denmark it is an independent judicial council that nominates a candidate, in the United States it is the American president. And Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett were appointed by former President Donald Trump. Trump became president in 2016 with nearly 2.9 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton because of the U.S. electoral system. The three judges were then approved in a Senate that at the time had a Republican majority, but which still represented a minority of the United States. The United States would ensure that the interests of the minority are also protected. This meant that each state got two senators in. But in today's United States, that means a state like Wyoming with about 580,000 has as much power and representation as California with about 39.5 million. But the 50 Democratic senators represent well over 41.5 million more Americans than the 50 Republican senators. And quite specifically, a right that American women have had for nearly 50 years stands to disappear because a majority of Supreme Court justices representing a minority of may decide it. usually sends first their decision in major cases of principle out late June start July.And the leading Supreme Court judge, the Conservative John Robert, has said that the final decision is still being discussed. But this case will remain in the future, and for many voters has become a political target with demands for. Supporters as opponents of Roe against Wade have demonstrated in front of the one who is now blocked off. But the protests will continue and find their way elsewhere. Like here in the streets where Supreme Court justices live.