With Roe v. Wade on the line, Lacie Wooten-Holway — who has had an abortion and is a survivor of sexual assault — is protesting outside the home of her neighbor Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
If the conservative justices are considering rolling back a precedent that protects what people choose to do with their own bodies, she says, then no home address is out of bounds.Wooten-Holway is planning another protest on Saturday, the fifth she has organized on his street.
Wooten-Holway moved on from the conversation with the couple, carrying a bag of red coat hangers and trying to stay committed to her work. But on this night, especially, she was exhausted — and alone.Wooten-Holway heard about a different protest outside Kavanaugh’s home in September and immediately wished she had been part of it. There had been so many times she wanted to do just that, but she always stopped herself.
“I would have been ill-equipped to be a parent,” Wooten-Holway said. “It was an easy choice, and it was a painful choice.”On her 21st birthday, June 11, 2003, she realized she was pregnant again. She was living with her parents in Georgetown and considered what her life would look like with a child and her first serious boyfriend. That lasted about 30 seconds, she said: “I was not ready to be a mom.
Footage of Wooten-Holway in the crowd of people protesting appeared on CNN that day, her hands above her head holding a graphic sign of a caricature of Kavanaugh groping Lady Justice, one hand over her mouth, saying “Don’t Scream!” That backlash remained in her mind before she took the step of organizing a protest in their neighborhood.On Wednesday night, Wooten-Holway crossed a nearby intersection and decided the ledge in front of her was the perfect spot for the red coat hangers.
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