JAVIER VEGA: Nicole, good afternoon. Well, a decision that will remain in the records, in the books because it aims to change practically 50 decades, 5 decades, 50 years of judicial decisions on the right to abortion in the United States.
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And what certainly worries women's rights advocates that happened in Texas might replicate itself in other states, because we know that the court's decisions set a national precedent. And we know that there are prohibitions in several states, but the Texas law is different because it was drafted in such a way that it is difficult to challenge in court. Why? Because its implementation does not depend on government officials, but on any citizen, Nicole.
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VEGA: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is part of the liberal bloc, was the one who used the most forceful language to express her rejection of the majority's decision, which she described as astonishing in a negative sense. She accused her colleagues of burying their heads in the sand, as she said they do when asked to comment on a law that prevents women from fully exercising their rights. Normally, when a justice is against a court position, they say "I respectfully dissent," and in this case Judge Sotomayor simply said "dissent”, "I disagree."