Seven months after the United States Supreme Court eliminated federal safeguards for nationwide abortion cases, anti-abortion activists called protests in Washington on Friday. Every January, protestors from over the country gather on the capital’s majestic front steps to encourage the justices inside to rescind their actions.
‘March for life’
“We have a lot of work to do,” a 74-year-old Catholic remarked of the ongoing protests.
Protests for abortions began in 1974 as a response to Roe v. Wade, a momentous Supreme Court decision issued last year that permitted women to terminate their pregnancies.
The post-Roe generation
On June 24, 2022, the court announced the right under hardline Republican former President Donald Trump, surrendered, allowing abortion prohibitions to be pursued.
“We are celebrating the end of Roe, but we still have to convert all people’s minds,” Barbara Countryman told AFP.
She claimed to have not missed a single “March for Life” in the previous 20 years.
She marched among college students and youngsters holding placards that proclaimed, “I am the post-Roe generation.”
Debate around abortion is back in the US
Kathleen Pilie, 78, of New Orleans, remarked, “many states still offer abortion on demand… the war is not finished for sure.”
The anti-abortion protests
Thousands of protesters yelled the Lord’s Prayer and “We love babies!”
Abortion rights campaigners marked the event by reflecting on the massive disruption in reproductive healthcare in the United States over the last year and calling for additional legislation to preserve ‘abortion rights.’
The March for Life of the Future President Jeanne Mancini told the audience that the March for Life organization hopes to expand its state march effort in the future to campaign for more state-level restrictions.