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SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/14/dc-bans-off-our-bodies-protest/
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Protesters gathered in Washington and at hundreds of events across the country on Saturday, including in New York City, San Antonio and Los Angeles, to rally for abortion rights.The demonstrations come as a direct response to the leaked draft of an opinion by the Supreme Court signaling that it is positioned to overturn Roe. v. She knew the risk she was taking in “the dark days” before Roe.“We’re here today to tell these radical extremists that if you criminalize people for having an abortion, if you make abortion illegal, if you take away our rights to make our personal decisions about our bodies, we will see you at the ballot box in November,” Lee said.The Senate failed to advance legislation Wednesday that would codify a constitutional right to abortion into federal law, after all 50 Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) opposed moving ahead on the bill, called the Women’s Health Protection Act.Rachel O’Leary Carmona, executive director of the Women’s March, said the organizers of Saturday’s events are planning for many more demonstrations this summer to continue to pressure lawmakers.“We have to see an end to the attacks on our bodies,” Carmona said. One woman wore a T-shirt with a Texas map that read “Gilead," a reference to the patriarchal dystopia from “The Handmaid’s Tale.”Veronika Granado, 22, said she’d had an abortion herself, and urged people to focus on the rights that have already been restricted in Texas.“We’re talking about how Roe might be overturned with this SCOTUS leak, but we’re not talking about what’s happening in Texas right now,” Granado said. Wade, she said, she quickly turned her attention to the ballot box.“I’m going to be voting,” she said.In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., hundreds of abortion rights supporters lined several blocks in front of the federal courthouse, drawing continual honks of support from motorists.The boisterous demonstrators chanted “Abortion is health care!” while carrying homemade signs such as “No Church Rule in USA” and “Women are not Government Property.”Standing under Florida’s blazing midday sun, many of the demonstrators said they viewed Saturday’s protest as just the start of a long battle to protect access to abortion in the state. “And we are just getting started, so I feel like, for once, we are really going to make a difference.”Bett Willett, 81, said her decision to remain at the protest despite heat-related health risks signaled just how angry she was about the looming Supreme Court decision.“I am 81 years old, and I have a daughter and granddaughters, and that is why I am here,” said Willett, a resident of Deerfield Beach, Fla.Asked whether she thinks abortion will remain legal in Florida if Roe is overturned, Willett said she won’t be able to answer until after the November elections.“This is just going to grow,” Willett said, as the sounds of chanting and car horns ricocheted off the federal courthouse building.

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