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For the second night in a row, protesters gathered in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday to condemn the court’s expired opinion, signaling that it is in a position to overturn deer. against Wade.
More than a thousand abortion rights demonstrators filled the sidewalk and street in front of the Supreme Court and demanded that President Biden and his fellow Democrats defend the right to abortion. A much smaller group of anti-abortion protesters chanting and singing nearby was separated from a group of police barricades and police at the US Capitol.
There was at least one violent fight between abortion rights and anti-abortion protesters, which led to the removal of a man from police.
Protesters demonstrated to the Supreme Court for a second day on May 3rd, after an expired draft opinion revealed a decision to repeal federal abortion rights. (Video: Hadley Green, Jorge Ribas / Washington Post)
Parents put their children on their shoulders, teenagers carried backpacks, and others came straight from work to be out of court, where they heard local activists, advocates and politicians. Some of the speakers included Nee Nee Taylor, co-conductor of Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, an organization for mutual aid and protection of the community led by blacks, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass).
Occasionally, protesters chanted, “Where’s Joe?” And “Shame on Joe” as speakers calling for federal protection for abortion rights. They held signs declaring that “Abortion is a human right”, “forced birth is non-American” and “As a girl, I just hope that one day I have as many rights as a gun.”
Warren said those who will bear the brunt of turning deer are black women, women who are poor, women who have been raped and girls who have been abused or who are victims of incest.
“Right now, the Supreme Court is turning its back on each of these women,” Warren said, adding later, “I’m here today because I’m determined not to let that opinion stand.”
Warren called for an end to the filibuster to raise the Senate vote: “We must keep voting until we win.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) On May 3 accused Republicans of “cultivating” Supreme Court justices after a draft opinion signaled the end of Roe v. Wade. (Video: SKY via AP)
Similar protests took place in cities and towns across the country on Tuesday night, when abortion advocates and organizations, including Women’s March and NARAL Pro-Choice America, rallied to come out and blow up the apparent court action for the first time. time reported by Politico, overturning its 49-year-old decision that the Constitution guarantees women the right to have an abortion.
In Texas, hundreds of abortion advocates marched from the state Capitol to the U.S. Courthouse, chanting “My body is my choice.” From there, they headed down Fifth Street and back to Congress Avenue, the main thoroughfare in downtown Austin, blocking traffic as police cars and officers blocked intersections. Several cars signaled in support.
Maddie Moore, a junior at the University of Texas at Austin, came to the protest prepared: she had bottles of water, sunscreen, granola and sharps in her backpack, which she had used to create a protest. After hearing about the leaked Supreme Court document Monday night, “I knew I would do something about it,” she said. “It’s just the fact that they are taking away the rights of people with a uterus. It just feels like this is the beginning of the revocation of other rights. “
More than a thousand demonstrators gathered in Foley Square in Manhattan on Tuesday night.
Speakers strongly condemned the draft decision, saying women’s reproductive rights would be protected “from Rochester to Rockville Center” and “from Syracuse to Staten Island”. Demonstrators waved banners reading “Abortion is health care” and “No woman can be called free who does not control her own body.”
A series of speakers addressed the crowd. Demonstrators periodically erupted in spontaneous chants, declaring “My body, my choice” and “No justice, no peace.”
Patricia Hanum, a 79-year-old New Yorker who attended the demonstration, described the prospect of deer has been overturned as a disaster.
“I’m one of those people who had to have an abortion when it wasn’t legal,” Hanham said.
Hanum said she became pregnant after being raped in 1965. The process of illegal abortion proved almost fatal and devastated her life years after the event.
“I lost my job, I almost died, I lost everything,” Hanham said.
Protesters on both sides of the issue in the Supreme Court shouted at each other. A man who held the caption “LGBT + Democrat for Life” did not prove popular among passers-by.
“You can’t be a pro-life and a democrat!” Cried a woman’s wife. “You can!” he answered. “I’m one!”
The tension eased and flowed throughout the day. District of Columbia police activated their civil unrest unit over the weekend, said department spokeswoman Dustin Sternbeck. The Civil Unrest Unit includes staff specially trained to manage crowds and riots.
On Tuesday night, Amy Blasberg sat on the sidewalk behind hundreds of abortion rights supporters. She looked to his newborn son.
“Maybe when you grow up, you won’t have to protest,” said Blasberg, who lives in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood of his 4-week-old son, Peter Lee. “We will see.”
Blasberg, 38, said she cried Monday night when she saw the news of the expired draft opinion. She had two difficult pregnancies with intense morning sickness, which prevented her from working as an early childhood policy researcher. She said she could not imagine forcing women to go through this if they did not choose to become pregnant.
Her Aunt Leslie Alexander sat down next to her and sighed. Her first job outside of college was as a receptionist at a planned parenting location in San Mateo, California. Raleigh, a 64-year-old woman from Raleigh, North Carolina, watched more and more people fill the streets, some seeming to come straight from work.
When an abortion advocate picked up the microphone and talked about abortion as their primary health care, Alexander applauded the crowd.
“If people do not mobilize now, loud and clear in the voting booth,” she said, “we are doomed.
Earlier in the day, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minorium) spoke to the crowd and said the battle would continue in state houses across the country and in Congress. She cited opinion polls that show that the majority of Americans want to Rowe vs. Wade to be maintained.
“Our Republican counterparts have gone against the grain of the American people,” Klobuchar said. “They went against the nipples of women in America.
Rene Bracey Sherman, who joined a group of “speaking” protesters Tuesday morning to share her experience with abortion, said: “All our rights are absolutely at stake here. Although this project is really just a draft and does not affect people’s lives, it signals what the court thinks. “
A group of anti-abortion protesters from organizations such as Students for Life and Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, members whose members are being investigated by DC police after receiving five fruits in March, also gathered in front of the Supreme Court, chanting and applauding. we are the generation for life and we will eliminate abortions! ”
Tensions rose throughout the morning as two groups of protesters swarmed to be the focus of media cameras. “Abortion is violence!” one side cheered. The other group shouted back, “Cite your sources!”
The Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a DC-based anti-abortion activist, is praying to the Supreme Court barricade for a leaked draft to be true. Mahoney said he had been waiting for this moment for decades. He has appeared before the Supreme Court countless times and joined in chanting other anti-abortion protesters to call for the abolition of deer. He listened again to the anti-abortion protesters, who shouted, “Hey, hey, ho ho, Rowe vs. Wade he has to go! ”
“I’ve sung this tens of thousands of times in the last 49 years, I’ve been out in a lot of heat and cold,” he said. “So it was really, really exciting.”
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Across the street, about 40 eighth-graders from the San Francisco Children’s Day School handed out brochures entitled “What if Rowe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court?”
Students from the school come to DC every year to present an annual service project. Coincidentally, this year was about abortion rights. Eighth-graders from Children’s Day arrived on Monday and woke up to the news on Tuesday.
“We didn’t expect that to happen,” said Chris Waxmith, program director of the high school. “We’ve been talking all year about how this could be the battle we’re in, but we didn’t expect to see it today at all.”
Wachsmith said it was a great opportunity to show students that others who are similar to them have different opinions. “We are trying to encourage them to have civic engagement,” he said.
Demonstrations began Monday night hours after news of an expired draft opinion. Hundreds of people gathered before the Supreme Court, many of them expressing shock and horror. A few lighted candles.
As night fell, the scene became tense, with about a dozen abortion protesters chanting, “Choice is a lie! Babies never choose to die! ” and a larger group of abortion rights advocates who shout, “When abortion rights are attacked, what do we do? Get up, fight back! ” and “Abortion is healthcare!”
Hundreds gathered before the Supreme Court on May 2 after the news of an expired draft opinion, which shows that the majority of the court is ready to repeal the right …
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