Thousands of protesters in major US cities, from New York to Los Angeles, staged peaceful protests reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the historic Roe vs. Wades from 1973.
Crowds poured into the streets after work with protesters chanting, marching and carrying banners.
gnaws vs. Wade protected the constitutional right to abortion. Overturning that ruling leaves it up to states to decide whether to allow abortions and under what circumstances.
The May 2 leak of a draft opinion to bring down Roe vs. Wade sparked nationwide protests from abortion supporters.
The Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group, said 26 states are “certain or likely” to ban or limit abortion in Roe’s absence, while 16 states have laws protecting abortion rights.
Protesters converged on Washington Square in New York City. Several carried signs paying tribute to women who fought to preserve abortion rights like Cecilia Fire Thunder, who led an effort to provide abortion services on the Pine Ridge reservation, and Dawn Wooten, who exposed forced sterilizations in detention centers. from ICE.
Other posters commemorate lives lost to unsafe abortions like that of Rosie Jimenez, a Texas resident who died after undergoing a risky procedure in 1978.
