Hundreds of pro-abortion advocates demonstrated in Washington on Saturday in response to a Texas federal judge’s decision that sought to restrict access to a common abortion medication throughout the country.
“Judges are not physicians,” and “Keep abortion legal,” were chanted by the demonstrators as they gathered outside the Supreme Court building.
As a Texas court restricted access to the abortion pill, the Supreme Court intervened at the last minute to protect access temporarily, sparking a protracted legal dispute that puts the nation’s future in doubt.
“When will it end?” About a year after the Supreme Court reversed the historic Roe v. Wade decision that had secured women access to the procedure for over 50 years, Carol Bouchard, a 61-year-old former lawyer, said she was “very outraged” to see access to the abortion pill jeopardized.
More than a dozen American states now prohibit abortion as a result of the ruling.
Brittany House, a Washington resident, spoke on stage on Saturday afternoon about the abortion she had in 2012, just after graduating from college.
She said that having an abortion “gave me freedom” since, at age 21, she “wouldn’t have been able to sustain my kid.”
Also protesting in front of the Supreme Court were a large number of septuagenarians who were furious to see limits mounting in the nation fifty years after fighting for the right to an abortion.
Barbara Kraft, who had an abortion in the late 1970s as a result of major problems with her pregnancy, claimed that the procedure “saved my life.”
She said, “I feel so passionately that women must have the freedom to choose for themselves.
A tiny handful of anti-abortion protestors momentarily stopped the event by shouting over a megaphone that “abortion is murder,” revealing the divisions that exist in American culture.
Protests in favor of abortion rights were also staged in New York and Los Angeles.
