Helicopters whirred overhead and the sun beat down on the pavement as hundreds of protesters rallied outside City Hall to protest the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision denying women the constitutional right to have abortions. Some wore shorts and tank tops and many many carried along coolers, kids and signs...
In his press release, he described such incidents as “domestic terrorism,” claiming: “The Democrats are silent about this violence, and the DOJ is ignoring it. We must enforce our laws and protect the organizations being terrorized by these anti-life extremists.”
But the crowd followed. Demonstrators walked behind the men, out of the plaza and up the street. “Abortion access is a human right,” they chanted as they followed. “My body, my choice.” Sydney Oxner, another demonstrator, spoke about why she showed up. “I don’t see any point in taking rights away from people over their own autonomy of their own bodies,” she said. “It makes absolutely no sense to me. It’s asinine that it’s 2022 and we’re literally moving back 50, 60 years.”
“I don’t understand why we’re repealing laws that literally just give people a right to their own body, that’s it … it doesn’t make any sense to me,” Oxnar said, explaining that she had an abortion in the past.
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