New Yorkers protest Supreme Court abortion draft
Displaying placards with slogans like "My body, my choice," thousands protested in New York City late Tuesday after a leaked draft ruling indicated that the Supreme Court planned to end nationwide legal abortion.
The several-thousand-strong crowd of men and women, young and old, chanted "Abortion is a human right, fight fight fight," as they rallied outside the federal court house in Lower Manhattan.
Many wore green, the color adopted by abortion rights campaigners.
They carried signs emblazoned with messages such as "I'm a woman, not a womb," "Keep abortion legal," "Stop the war against women," and "I will have fewer rights than my mother."
"You can only ban safe abortion. You cannot prevent women from taking their own reproductive choices out of their own hands. That's a fantasy," 35-year-old Kaytlin Bailey said.
Lauren Workman, 22, said the attitude of the six conservative justices on the Supreme Court was "an illustration of how much is wrong with this country."
She said she thought that any ban on abortion would disproportionately impact poorer women and those from communities of color.
"This is not just a reproductive justice issue. This is a racial justice issue. This is an economic justice issue.
