WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bunch of protestors supporting abortion rights marched for about 4 miles from the U.S. Supreme Court docket constructing to Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. on Sunday.
Marching to chants similar to “we aren’t incubators,” “we received’t return” and “that is what democracy seems like,” the peaceable rally traveled previous congressional buildings on Independence Avenue earlier than ending at Pennsylvania Avenue and fifteenth Avenue at a blockaded portion of Pennsylvania Avenue close to the White Home.
Police escorted the marchers and when the protestors reached the blockaded Pennsylvania Avenue, they turned the march right into a sit-in in the midst of the road below the specter of rain.
One anti-abortion demonstrator started to string his means into the march shouting non secular feedback via a bull horn. A police automotive blocked him and a few abortion rights protestors verbally confronted him a couple of occasions.
Many protestors’ indicators made connections between the courtroom’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade and LGBTQ rights. Many worry the courtroom will overturn prior selections recognizing identical intercourse marriage sooner or later.
Protests have been happening across the U.S. because the courtroom launched its determination on Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Healthcare, which overturned the landmark 1973 determination Friday morning. A rally came about in Santa Fe outdoors the Roundhouse on Sunday.