Abortion rights activists across the country take to the streets to protest recent wave of restrictive state laws.
Abortion rights activists across the country took to the streets on Tuesday to protest the recent wave of restrictive state laws.
Demonstrators marched, chanted slogans and waved signs in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Charlotte, North Carolina, among other cities. In Washington, hundreds of abortion rights advocates — including some Democrats running for the 2020 presidential nomination — massed in front of the Supreme Court. "We are not going to allow them to move our country backward," Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told the crowd from a lectern near the high court.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, also attended the Washington rally.at statehouses and city centers around the nation were scheduled for Tuesday at noon local time. The events were organized in part by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Planned Parenthood Action Funds and other abortion rights groups.
Memo to anti-choice politicians: If you come for our constitutional right to abortion, you’ll have to get through ALL OF US.
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