WASHINGTON, June 26 — Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America yesterday for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state...
WASHINGTON, June 26 — Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America yesterday for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure.
"What happened yesterday is indescribable and disgusting," said Mia Stagner, 19, a political science major in college."Being forced to be a mother is not something any woman should have to do." Fueling the mobilisation, many now fear that the Supreme Court, with a clear conservative majority made possible by Donald Trump, might next set its sights on rights like same-sex marriage and contraception.
Women in states that severely restrict abortion or outlaw it altogether will either have to continue with their pregnancy, undergo a clandestine abortion, obtain abortion pills, or travel to another state where it remains legal. Carolyn Keller, 57, who traveled all the way from New Jersey, said she was enraged by the ruling, warning:"They came after women. They will come after the LGBT community and contraception.""It's not a personal choice to have an abortion, it involves two people and unfortunately that choice ends in the ending of someone's life," she told AFP.
Missouri was first to ban the procedure on Friday, making no exception for rape or incest, joined as of Saturday morning by at least seven other states — Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Utah.
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