InsertedOctober 9, 2022, 12:52 am
United StatesThousands of women demonstrate for the right to abortion
A month before the mid-term elections, thousands of people demonstrated in the United States on Saturday to demand the defense of the right to abortion.
Many protesters wore green bracelets and scarves, the typical color of abortion.
AFP
Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in several cities in the United States, including Washington, to demand the defense of the right to abortion, detonated at the federal level this summer by the Supreme Court, and to deploy a democratic “blue wave” in the mid-term elections in a month.
“We will not go back”, protesters, mostly women, waved placards calling for a “feminist tsunami” and “to vote to save women’s rights” in the face of the conservative offensive.
“I don’t want to have to go back to another time,” Emily Bobal, 18, a Washington student, told AFP. “It is quite ridiculous that we still have to (protest) in 2022” to defend this right, she added, expressing concern that the Supreme Court is now attacking gay marriage.
“Vote”
“Most of us are ready to come out and fight for democracy and for people’s right to have their bodies, women and men,” said Kimberly Allen, 70, for whom the election results of medium term of 8 November will be decisive in terms of protection of rights.
Many protesters wore green bracelets and scarves, the typical color of abortion. Others waved huge blue flags (the color of the Democrats) crossed out with a “Vote” and blue wave-shaped signs symbolizing the surge they are asking for during the poll.
Some counter-protesters who urged to “find Jesus Christ”, and for whom “abortion is equivalent to murder”, were booed. Similar rallies took place in New York City and Denver, Colorado, among others.
Elect “more women”
“The wave of women will haunt EVERY anti-abortion politician, wherever they live,” tweeted Rachel O’Leary Carmona, executive director of “Women’s March”, the main organization behind the protest, which urges “more women” to be elected. candidates for abortion rights next month.
The elections will determine control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Democrats, led by Joe Biden, want to place the debate on defending the right to abortion and democracy. At the end of June, the Supreme Court abolished the constitutional right to abortion.
Immediately, a series of republican-led states banned abortions on their soil and many battles were launched in the courts. In the latest development, an Arizona court of appeals on Friday ruled that abortions could once again be performed in that state.
(AFP)
