Mikaela Viqueira
Los Angeles (USA), June 24 (EFE).- The Latin actress Francia Raisa does not want to imagine a future with Donald Trump at the head of the White House. If the magnate wins the November elections and returns to power, the United States “will not be a free country,” she warns in an interview with EFE.
The actress accompanies the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, this Monday at an electoral campaign event in the state of Arizona, two years after the Supreme Court decision that ended federal protections for abortion, allowing each state set its own rules.
Raisa, 35, has joined Harris because the abortion restrictions that more than twenty states have approved disproportionately affect minority women, such as Latinas, and those with fewer economic resources.
“I don’t understand why they are focused on taking away our reproductive and very intimate rights” instead of “trying to take care of us so that we can have children and be healthy,” defends Raisa from Arizona, a key state for the November elections where Hispanics represent 25% of the electorate.
In Arizona in April, the state Supreme Court allowed an 1864 law to take effect that prohibits abortion in almost all cases, even after rape or incest. However, the state parliament passed a law to repeal it, although it will not come into force until 90 days after the end of the legislative period, which is usually in June or July.
According to Raisa, these restrictions affect more than 6 million Latina women living in Arizona. “If we don’t vote this November so we can continue to speak out, it will be dangerous for women in this state,” she warned.
The right to abortion “is something intimate and someone who does not know us does not know what is happening and they are not educated on this issue,” so how can they decide about it? he asks.
The actress also regretted that women’s health is too often relegated to the background.
Raisa, who a couple of weeks ago was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis, criticized the lack of studies that help determine previous pathologies or develop treatments and assistance to improve women’s reproductive health.
Daughter of migrants, a Honduran father and a Mexican mother, Raisa experienced firsthand racism against the Hispanic community that, she says, persists in the United States since Trump’s victory in the 2016 elections.
In 2020, she recounted on her Instagram account how some Trump supporters blocked her path and mocked her while she was driving on a highway in Southern California.
“I have never heard so much racism in my life” since Trump’s arrival in the country, the actress laments.
And he doesn’t understand: “We pay taxes, we follow the law.” The actress is especially frustrated by Trump’s rhetoric that portrays migrants as harmful to the United States. “Look at your own people,” she asserts firmly.
Therefore, he says: “I am here (in Arizona) for my reproductive rights and for my people. My people have worked hard to contribute to the economy.”
And the actress concludes with a warning about the possible consequences of a Trump victory: “If that man wins again, there go our rights. We supposedly live in a free country, but it won’t be like that anymore if our freedoms are taken away from us. So , what is the point?”. EFE
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