Posted on May 14, 2022
‘The Hour Is Later Than We Thought’: Thousands Gather at Marches for Abortion Rights
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Thousands of marchers converged in the nation’s capital and across the country on Saturday to show their support for abortion rights nearly two weeks after the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
A crowd of protesters gathered near the Washington Monument before marching to the Supreme Court, with some wearing shirts that read “Bans Off Our Bodies” and “Keep Abortion Safe and Legal.” They vowed to fight to preserve abortion rights, even as some accepted that Roe would most likely be overturned.
Colleen Lunsford, 42, a lawyer from Arlington, Va., brought her 5-year-old daughter, Orla. Pointing to her daughter, she said she attended the march for “her future and autonomy.”
A crowd of protesters gathered near the Washington Monument before marching to the Supreme Court, with some wearing shirts that read “Bans Off Our Bodies” and “Keep Abortion Safe and Legal.” They vowed to fight to preserve abortion rights, even as some accepted that Roe would most likely be overturned.
Colleen Lunsford, 42, a lawyer from Arlington, Va., brought her 5-year-old daughter, Orla. Pointing to her daughter, she said she attended the march for “her future and autonomy.”
‘The Hour Is Later Than We Thought’: Thousands Gather at Marches for Abortion Rights
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There are actually people here on RP that belive making abortions illegal makes them safer. Sorry, some people just drink too much Kool Aid!
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth I'm sure the will, provided they can afford it on top of the procedure cost. That wasn't an option in 1963 when I lost my friend, they were illegal everywhere.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen I am sorry you lost your friend...but it isn't illegal, may be harder to get for some folks but.it won't be illegal unless the state makes it so.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth Do you actually understand the trigger laws that have been passed and are just waiting for the overturn of RvW? The day after, if not the day of, a decision it will be illegal in 25 - 30 states.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
[~802057:Lt Col John (Jack) Yes Jack I do understand it and I also understand basic math. So half the country it will be by legal...they can go there to get it done...constitutionally still up to the states! You don't like the laws, move...that is what is happening in CA and several other states...this should not be a federal issue!
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I hear more opposition from men than women on abortion rights. The ultra religious radical right may get their way now but it will come crumbling down for them in the near future.
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I know we are all, with military backgrounds find killing a necessity
But we must remember we kill adult enemies. We even consider (in laws of war) that killing non-combatant men women and children as murder, even in war.
But what do we call abortion? A womens right? Where is that in our founding documents? When is taking an innocent life of one that can not defend itself and that has a heartbeat and can feel pain not wrong or dastardly or sinful or evil?who among you that has no guilt, should be first to cast a stone.
Also, the one who harms a child would be better seres by hanging a mill stone around his neck and be cast off a bridge.
But we must remember we kill adult enemies. We even consider (in laws of war) that killing non-combatant men women and children as murder, even in war.
But what do we call abortion? A womens right? Where is that in our founding documents? When is taking an innocent life of one that can not defend itself and that has a heartbeat and can feel pain not wrong or dastardly or sinful or evil?who among you that has no guilt, should be first to cast a stone.
Also, the one who harms a child would be better seres by hanging a mill stone around his neck and be cast off a bridge.
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