At least 2,000 protesters marched to the Supreme Court Saturday to protest the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Despite rainy weather, the area …
At least 2,000 protesters marched to the Supreme Court Saturday to protest the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade. Despite rainy weather, the area saw the largest Washington pro-abortion protest since a leaked Supreme Court opinion suggested that the court might overturn Roe v. Wade. The protest march started at the Washington Memorial, organized by the Women’s March. Compared to previous D.C. abortion protests, the starting crowd sounded far less angry and included a wider variety of ages.
“We want to fight for women’s rights. We want to make it known that it’s a bigger issue than people think,” said Rhaegan Walker, a protester from Suffolk, Virginia. Walker added that she wasn’t worried about being arrested for protesting outside the house of a Supreme Court justice.
“That’s not something I’m personally worried about. I will get arrested for something I believe in,” she said. Protesters also came to the march from farther away. Pro-abortion protester Daniel Smith and his family arrived at the abortion march from Michigan.
“My wife got pregnant in college. And our daughter, the result of that, is right there,” said Smith, gesturing toward a girl carrying a sign reading “Do I look old enough to be a mother?”
“And we were very young,” he said of him and his wife. “I don’t know how life would have been different if we felt that we had the option not to be parents as college juniors,” he said. The abortion march began with a ritual invocation by activist Sarah Eagle Heart. She noted that the protest was taking place on “colonized land” and thanked “all the ancestors” for allowing the protesters to be there.
