‘I hope people get as scared as I am’: About 1,000 gather, march from West Town supporting abortion rights
Marchers show support for employees from a family planning clinic on Washington Street on their way from Union Park to Lasalle Street and Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago on May 14, 2022. The rally and march was part of a nationwide Bans Off Our Bodies Day of Action.
Chanting: “Abortion is healthcare, abortion is a right,” “My body my choice,” and “Let us choose,” the supporters began walking east on Washington Boulevard about 11:30 a.m. before making their way to the city’s Loop neighborhood, at Wacker Drive and LaSalle Street about an hour later.Saturday’s outpourings join a wave of pro-abortion rights protests washing over the country currently in light of a leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling that previewed the overturning of Roe v.
Mostar said she was “really sad” thinking of all the people who have been fighting for abortion rights longer than she has while also looking around at the other children in the crowd struggling with the fact that “we haven’t done this for them yet.” Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton was in attendance at Union Park and said to the crowd as a Black woman and mother of four daughters, she has spent her life fighting “to have more rights, not fewer.”
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