Outside the Supreme Court, generations of activists mourned as 5 right-wing justices took away a fundamental right from millions of women.
A young woman near the steps of the Supreme Court, wiping the tears out of her golden eyeshadow. Behind her, a group of teenagers bounced their “Protection At Conception” signs in the air as a Black Eyed Peas song blared from a speaker. “,” they sang. Janet Berry, a 76-year-old woman from Minneapolis, gloomily recalled the time before Roe, when “girls in high school either went away to an ‘aunt’ or ended up dead” she explained. “That’s a shitty way to deal with a pregnancy.
After they cast their first votes of the day, House Democrats gathered on the steps of the Capitol. They sang “God Bless America” — homage to the gun control bill they passed that morning — then solemnly marched across the grounds to the Supreme Court, registering their outrage with reporters along the way.
Rep. David Cicilline rejected the notion that Democrats are powerless right now. He referred to the abortion rights legislation he and his colleagues have passed that could be lawthe Senate abolished the filibuster. And if that doesn’t happen — it won’t — “we have to be sure that we grow our numbers sufficiently both in the House and Senate so we don’t need Republicans,” he said.
Berry, the woman from Minneapolis, couldn’t agree less: “For us to turn around and go back to what life was like when I was in my twenties…This is the most backwards thing.”
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