Hundreds of protesters turned out in streets across the US to denounce the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, while abortion rights advocates voiced their concerns over the reality for future generations of women:
Abortion-rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases.Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America on Saturday for a second day of protests against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure.
Twin demonstrations were also getting underway in Los Angeles — one headed to city hall and the other to the federal courthouse — with dozens of smaller rallies planned from coast to coast. "I know how painful and devastating the decision is for so many Americans," said the president, who has urged Congress to restore abortion protections as federal law, and vowed the issue would be on the ballot in November's midterm elections.
Carolyn Keller, 57, who travelled all the way from New Jersey, said she was enraged by the ruling, warning: "They came after women. They will come after the LGBT community and contraception.""It's not a personal choice to have an abortion, it involves two people and unfortunately that choice ends in the ending of someone's life," she told AFP.
Indiana also announced it would take steps to do the same, and abortion providers in Wisconsin said the procedure was now banned there as well. The swift ban forced the Planned Parenthood clinic on St Louis’ Forest Park Avenue — which had been the last facility providing abortions in the state — to immediately stop offering the procedure.
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