US Allies condemn abortion ruling; Blinken and his UN ambassador join critics
JERUSALEM – In a series of highly unusual actions,
the U.S. State Department and world leaders waded into the bitterly contentious domestic dispute over Friday's Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion.
"As Secretary of State, I usually avoid commenting on Supreme Court rulings,"
America’s top diplomat Antony Blinken announced in a statement.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, also took the Supreme Court to task for its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization.
The rapid-fire moves by American diplomats to attack the nation’s top judicial body has raised alarm bells among commentators that this is a second act of President Barack Obama’s "apology tour" and an expression of homegrown anti-Americanism.
"It is an absolute disgrace for U.S. officials to be apologizing on the world stage for decisions taken by the U.S Supreme Court," Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, told Fox News Digital.
US allies condemn abortion ruling; Blinken and his UN ambassador join critics