Photos: 'Bans Off Our Bodies' rally in downtown L.A.
Thousands of people took to the streets in the Southland on Saturday as part of a nationwide effort to protect abortion rights in the aftermath of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overruling the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision.
Jean English, 67, lets her sign — “Fighting for 50 years. We won’t go back.” — speak for her at an abortion rights rally in front of L.A. City Hall downtown. Carrie Worthen, 55, wearing a symbolic hanger around her neck, jots down her support for abortion rights on a banner at a rally Saturday in downtown Los Angeles.Abortion rights supporters and antiabortion activists shout at one another during a “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally and march to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday.
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