Rolande Baker, who had a pre-Roe abortion, was jailed for protesting at a Supreme Court hearing earlier this month. She says they were treated like 'animals.'
Baker, who has a history of practicing civil disobedience, said she was compelled to travel from Arizona to D.C. to protest at the court by her frustration with lacking media coverage of abortion rights ahead of the midterm elections. “It was all about ‘inflation,” which made me so angry, knowing it’s all just price-gouging, when people needed to realize how important this election was for abortion,” Baker said.
was decided in 1973, Baker says she regrets growing complicit: “I sat on my laurels somewhat, I got married, I had children.” The fall ofBefore Nov. 2, Baker had never met Enfield or Paterson, but they’d connected through activist circles and waited hours in line to enter the Supreme Court that day. Baker had struggled to enter the building due to her disability.
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