More than 1,000 abortion-rights demonstrators flocked to Houston’s downtown federal...
Richard Lang prays a rosary as he joins anti-abortion demonstrators outside Planned Parenthood gather to sing and pray Friday, June, 24, 2022, in Houston, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade that guaranteed women’s constitutional right to an abortion. The Supreme Court on Friday, in a watershed moment for the nation’s highest court, overturned decades-old precedent establishing the right to an abortion in the United States.
Anti-abortion demonstrators gather to sing and pray outside Planned Parenthood Friday, June, 24, 2022, in Houston, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade that guaranteed women’s constitutional right to an abortion. The Supreme Court on Friday, in a watershed moment for the nation’s highest court, overturned decades-old precedent establishing the right to an abortion in the United States.It wasn’t just abortion-rights demonstrators who braved the 95-degree afternoon heat.
Cynthia Lebeau and her friend Katelyn Conner drove two hours from Lufkin, buying markers and poster board on the trip down. Lebeau jumped in the car soon after learning of the decision and planned to hold a protest Saturday in her city.In her hands, she held a sign that read, “Ready for war.” Demonstrators gathered at other locations around Houston before the protest at the federal courthouse took shape. Kathleen Ruhleder initially showed up to Water Works at Buffalo Bayou for a protest planned there.
O’Rourke didn’t speak, and some of the crowd urged him to turn attention back to the speakers, as they shared personal stories of about abortions. At one point, the crowd chanted “Democrats we call your bluff; voting blue in is not enough.”
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