As the US Supreme Court is apparently ready to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal, hundreds of thousands of people in America are planning to take to the streets to protest the impending decision.
A coalition of groups such as Planned Parenthood, UltraViolet, MoveOn and the Women’s March are organizing Saturday demonstrations, whose rally cry is “Forbid Our Body.” More than 370 protests are planned, including in Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The demonstrations come after a draft opinion expired on May 2nd, which shows that five Conservatives in the Supreme Court with nine judges voted to overturn the decision of their predecessors in Rowe v. Wade nearly 50 years ago.
Unless the interim decision is substantially changed before it becomes final, abortion will be banned substantially immediately in more than half of the United States. People in these 26 states hostile to abortion will be forced either to travel hundreds of miles to a clinic in a state where abortion is legal, or to seek abortion on their own through drugs from local or illegal groups.
As Conservatives celebrated the leak, Liberals protested in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., as well as the homes of some conservative judges, to express their displeasure.
These rallies – generally peaceful – were relatively small, while Saturday’s events will almost certainly be compared to the Women’s March in 2017, the day after Donald Trump took office as president, attracting about 3 million to 4 million people. USA.
Prohibitions on our bodies will take place three days after Democrats in the US Senate on Wednesday made a largely symbolic effort to improve legislation to codify the right to abortion into federal law. All 50 Republicans and one Conservative Democrat – Joe Manchin of West Virginia – voted against the measure, leaving far fewer than the 60 votes needed to develop it.
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