” My body, my choice. A message written in black letters on the face of a demonstrator in the United States, to see this week on the front page of The Obs. ” The fight goes on », titles the magazine, obviously referring to the revocation of the federal right to abortion across the Atlantic. Regardless that more than seven out of ten Americans oppose it, the Supreme Court has ” seated on their opinion, can we read. A decision that Point qualified for ” spectacular throwback in a country that was often throughout history, our teacher of freedoms, even our lifeline in this matter “.
The United States fractured by an ideological war
” On the left, America is on the barricades ” tell us The Obsciting in particular legal actions in several states, for “ block the abortion ban », or The Women’s March which « rallied hundreds of thousands of protesters after Trump came to power in 2017 “, and which today promises a ” summer of rage “, with many demonstrations.
And the right is also in battle order. Le Figaro Magazine introduces us to an elected official who has contributed to ” turn america’s history upside down “: Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas, who had already passed a law more than a year ago ” prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape or incest “. He hoped at the time – when this law was challenged in court – that the Supreme Court would follow suit. So he naturally welcomed the judges’ decision this week on NBC, the fruit according to him of ” forty years of struggle “. Asa Hutchison” thus begins his thorny race for the White House “, Explain Le Figaro Magazinebecause ” he plans to run in the Republican primary in 2024 “.
And there is now the fear of seeing other rights threatened, contraception or homosexual marriage for example, as certain judges of the Supreme Court have already mentioned. The Obs In the end, this risk of escalation is summed up very well: ” Religious extremists are like junkies : always increase the dose ! »
The “ martyrdom » Afghan women
This seems to be confirmed under other skies… Another country, another war against women: Paris Match this week denounces the martyrdom suffered by Afghan women since the return to power of the Taliban. From Kabul – where they have been forced to wear the full veil again since last May – to Kandahar above all, the stronghold of the Taliban. ” Banned from the international community, Afghanistan is mired in a major economic and humanitarian crisis, but its new masters have a priority : controlling the lives of women. »
Paris Match also delivers an interview with Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president now under house arrest in Kabul. He invites the Taliban to reconsider certain decisions, the education of girls is in particular for him ” a vital issue “.
In northern Mali, the fight against terrorism
Another war born of religious extremism again, in northern Mali this time: Le Figaro Magazine takes us to the shade of a large acacia, ” in the bush of the tri-border region near the town of Talataye. Report on the birth of the Permanent Strategic Framework, the CSP, an organization that brings together the leaders of Tuareg and Arab armed groups. Signatories of the 2015 peace agreement, they have decided to unite against terrorism.
Since France began its withdrawal, they have set themselves up as ” the last bastion “says Le Figaro Magazine. He reports the creation of a General Staff, ” under construction ” with ” own command and specialized forces “. And the mayor of Talataye, who launched the invitation to gather the CSP in his city in the spring, is categorical: ” We are on our own. We are aware that the State will not restore security for us “, he testifies.
The challenges of Paris 2024
In another register, France is already thinking of the Olympic Games in Paris. The Sunday Journal dedicates its front page to it today, ” alerts on Paris 2024 “. ” Finance, security, governance and jobs : two years from the event, the subjects of concern accumulate », tells us the JDD. Especially around the opening ceremony on the Seine, ” with 162 floating barges to transport delegations and Heads of State, over 6 kilometers », with some 600,000 spectators expected on the quays, « a first in the history of Olympism which has always opted for a closed enclosure “. But the Interior Ministry provides for an exceptional mobilization “, assures the JDD which also relays the words of Tony Estanguet, the president of the Organizing Committee. ” You have to keep your cool. […] The idea is to anticipate the hazards, because there will be “, he warns.
Have the French lost the taste for effort? ?
Another file… The weeklies also wonder about the French: have they lost the taste for effort? We can already dwell on this survey of The Express alerting to the considerable drop in the level of French students in mathematics. For example, on an equal test, a student who ” got an average score in 1987 would be one of the best today “. ” Poor performance that places France below the OECD average, between Turkey and New Zealand “, to analyse The Expressfar behind South Korea or Japan.
But more broadly, where did the taste for effort go ? asks the front page of Point. As Le Figaro Magazinehe observes the labor shortage in certain sectors such as the hotel and catering industry, a lack of ambition “or even the recent” revolt against baccalaureate subjects deemed too difficult “. To the point of wondering even if we would not be in the process of ” switch to the civilization of the slipper “.However, if you also prefer to stay on the sofa, watching series, well, we can be reassured, it’s not our fault! It is the fault of our brain, assure the magazines. Attracted by immediate pleasures, he makes the reward circuits work more easily than the mechanisms of effort. Almost a survival instinct, but Point encourages us: Pugnacity and motivation take muscle ! “.