Heok had pre-eclampsia and delivered her now 15-year-old son at just 28 weeks pregnant, and her doctor advised an abortion when she became pregnant shortly afterward.
Zonmund Heok, 51, of Ohio, was in New York City on vacation, but joined demonstrators. I don't know how much this is really going to do, but I just feel very desperate." "So I'm just here to get my rage out," Bracey said. "I'm terrified for what this means for birthing people in the country."īracey said she feels lucky to live in a state where the right to an abortion is still protected but said she fears the Supreme Court could take aim at other rights including marriage equality. One of the protesters was 16-year-old Anura Bracey, who was carrying a sign that read "Overturn Roe? Hell No." "Abortion is health care, health care is a right," the crowd chanted.
The Senate, which was in session, was interrupted but later resumed. The gas was deployed from the roof of the House of Representatives, he said. In Phoenix on Friday night, state troopers used tear gas after protesters banged on the doors of the Arizona Senate building, and after part of a door was broken, state Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves said. Crowds marched in downtown Seattle, and in Los Angeles, protesters marched on the northbound 110 freeway downtown, blocking traffic.
And in Flint, Michigan, hundreds blocked the sidewalks in front of the Genesee County Prosecutor's office.ĭemonstrations continued into the evening. Massive crowds gathered in front of the federal building in downtown Chicago and then marched through The Loop to Grant Park chanting, "My body! My choice!" Protesters also staged noisy demonstrations outside the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, and across from the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison. Quickly, it spread westward as devastated abortion-rights protesters across the country railed against the conservative justices who wiped away a half-century of precedent and made access to abortions all but impossible in many states.
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