Pro-life and pro-choice demonstrators protested in public places across the country on Friday morning in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion ruling from 1973, which now permits states to enact their own abortion regulations, Fox News informed.
Following the court’s ruling, pro-life activists gathered in American cities to celebrate the passage of restrictive abortion laws that are currently in effect or will be in the near future in several GOP-led states, while pro-choice protesters opposed what they saw as an assault on reproductive rights.
Thousands of people arrived outside the Supreme Court in Washington with signs supporting their causes, both in favor and against the decision.
Pro-choice demonstrators started joining in on shouts to express their anger over Friday’s decision.
At one point, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a Democrat, joined a group of people who were calling the court “illegitimate.”
In northwest Washington, DC, protesters also torched an American flag.
“F—k MPD” and “F—k you Thomas, Alito, Coney Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Roberts” are written on signs placed close to the burning flag.
The abortion procedure is legal at all stages of pregnancy, including the third and fourth trimesters, making D.C.’s abortion rules some of the least onerous in the nation.
After an estimated 17,000 people marched in the Big Apple, dozens of pro-choice protesters were detained in New York City.
Keep your laws off my body and “No uterus, no opinion” were among the banners the protesters carried while yelling “My body, my choice.”
The 2019 Reproductive Health Act safeguards access to abortion in New York.
In advance of the court’s decision, Democratic governor Kathy Hochul recently strengthened protections for those who seek and administer abortions.
To protest the decision, a large crowd gathered in downtown Los Angeles, where there were reportedly some violent encounters between the demonstrators and the police.
While SWAT teams fired non-lethal shots at protesters, it was reported that protesters threw rocks and lit fireworks close to police.
A gathering was deemed illegal by the police.
The number of people that were apprehended in relation to the protests has not been made public.
Large-scale, mostly nonviolent protests also developed in Hollywood and West Hollywood.
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