From Florida and Texas to California and Illinois, demonstrators marched with chants like, 'Red state, blue state, you can't hide, the war on abortion is nationwide,' and 'Fascist judges make me ill, hands off the abortion pill.'
Many septuagenarians were also marching in front of the Supreme Court, outraged to see restrictions piling up in the country, 50 years after having fought for the right to an abortion.
An abortion"saved my life," said Barbara Kraft, who had an abortion in the late 1970s after serious complications during her pregnancy. "I feel so strongly that women have to have the right to make that decision for themselves," she said. "The ACLU and Planned Parenthood and several other national partner organizations have been following this case out of Texas for months and we organized and coordinated to host rallies on the same day across the country," Samantha Chapman, the advocacy manager for the ACLU of South Dakota,"Self-managed abortion is safe and it is essential healthcare. I've done it," said Chapman."People who support abortion access are never going to go away.
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