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Pro-abortion protests in the US

2022-05-15 11:06:10Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Pro-abortion protests in the US

Thousands of right-to-abortion supporters are protesting Saturday across the United States, and organizers said marches will continue throughout the summer if the Supreme Court overthrows the "Roe vs. Wade" case decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

Planned Parenthood, Women's March and other abortion rights groups organized more than 400 marches Saturday, with the largest expected turnout in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago.

The demonstrations are a reaction to a preliminary opinion leaked to the media on May 2, where the court's conservative majority presented arguments for reversing the landmark 1973 decision that defined the federal constitutional right to terminate the pregnancy.

The court's final decision, which could give states the power to ban abortion, is expected in June. About half of U.S. states can significantly ban or restrict abortion if the Supreme Court rescinds the decision protecting the right to abortion.

Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to attend Saturday's rallies, which organizers said would be the first amid many coordinated protests over the potential Supreme Court decision.

"For the women of this country, this will be a summer of anger," said Rachel Carmona, president of Women's March. "We will not stop until this government starts working for us, until attacks on our body cease, until the right to abortion is returned to law."

Several thousand abortion supporters began crowding into a Chicago park Saturday morning, including Congressmember Sean Casten and his 15-year-old daughter, Audrey.

Mr Casten, whose district includes the western suburbs of Chicago, told Reuters it was "appalling" that the conservative Supreme Court was considering rescinding the right to abortion by punishing women with "a lower status."

Democrats, who currently control the White House and both houses of Congress, hope the reaction to the Supreme Court's decision will contribute to their party's candidates' victory in congressional elections in November.

But voters will weigh abortion rights versus other issues like rising food and gas prices, and they may have doubts about Democrats' ability to protect access to abortion after efforts to pass legislation that would guarantee abortion rights in federal law failed.

In Lanta, more than 400 people had gathered in a small park in front of the state capitol.

40-year-old Democrat Elizabeth Murphy said she believes abortion rights supporters will turn out to vote in november's election.

"I vote and this time I'm telling everyone I know to vote," she said.

In downtown Brooklyn, thousands of abortion rights supporters gathered to cross the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan.

Elizabeth Holtzman, an 80-year-old marcher who had represented New York in Congress from 1973 to 1981, said the Supreme Court's leaked preliminary opinion "treats women as objects, as less than human beings."

"I have fought for women's rights for 50 years and I will not give up," she said.

Abortion rights supporters in Washington gathered at the Washington Monument to walk later toward the Supreme Court. Protests were also planned in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

Last week, some protesters went to the homes of Supreme Court members Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, who according to the preliminary version published in the media are pro overturning the "Roe vs. Wade" decision.

Conservative Court member Clarence Thomas said Friday at a conference in Dallas that the leak of the information had permanently broken trust within the Court.

"When you lose faith, especially in the institution where I am, the institution is radically changed," he said.

Students for Life of America, an anti-abortion group with branches in universities across the country, said it was organizing counterprotests Saturday in nine cities, including Washington.


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