Miami-Dade mayor joins Wynwood protest in support of abortion protections

WYNWOOD, Fla. – Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava joined a protest on Friday in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. It was her means of displaying that she stands in opposition to the Supreme Court docket’s ruling that removed the constitutional protections for abortion.

The mayor was among the many dozens who shouted: “Abortion rights are underneath assault! What will we do? Arise! Battle again!” The march took over a number of blocks.

Levine Cava stated one technique to combat is to vote for candidates who consider girls’s proper to protected and authorized abortion is a basic human proper that ought to have authorized protections.

“It’s devastating and clearly thank goodness, younger girls throughout this nation are waking up,” Levine Cava stated in regards to the protests on Friday nationwide.

Michelle Isgut, 33, stated she was protesting as a result of she couldn’t consider the ruling. Justice Samuel Alito wrote within the last opinion issued Friday that Roe and Deliberate Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 resolution higher often called Roe vs. Wade, was improper and needed to be overturned.

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Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito. Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t be a part of. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented.

The choice comes only a day after the Supreme Court docket dominated to strike down a New York legislation requiring a must get a license to hold. Thomas wrote the Structure protects the “proper to hold a handgun for self-defense.” Within the dissent, Breyer wrote, “there have already been 277 reported mass shootings — a median of multiple per day.”

“For SCOTUS to problem a ruling on gun rights saying that they’ll’t depart to the states to manage, however then to show round like days, hours later and attempt to regulate my physique like this — It’s unbelievable,” Isgut stated throughout the protest in Wynwood.

Some protesters expressed their opposition to Gov. Ron DeSantis since he signed a invoice to implement a statewide 15-week ban on abortions. The group chanted, “Vote him out!”

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Nikki Fried, Florida’s twelfth Commissioner of Agriculture and Shopper Providers, was additionally on the protest. She is campaigning to be the Democratic candidate to run in opposition to DeSantis, however Charlie Crist is within the lead.

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