New Yorkers protest abortion restrictions in Texas
Thousands marching to protect women’s rights.
BY TEQUILA MINSKY
Thousands of New Yorkers joined tens
of thousands around the country to
protest abortion restrictions in Texas.
The recent ban in Texas would force
women to travel hundreds of miles—to
go out of the state to obtain an abortion.
Roe vs Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme
Court decision ruled that a pregnant
woman was at liberty to have an abortion
without excessive government restriction.
Texas’ “heartbeat law” restricts all abortions
when a fetal heartbeat is detected
with no exceptions including rape or incest.
This march takes place just days before
the Supreme Court convenes —a Mississippi
case enabling them to overturn
rights established in the 1973 decision will
be heard. If Roe vs. Wade is overturned,
abortion access will no longer be protected
and states will be free to ban or limit it.
Masks that demonstrators wore read:
Bans Off our Bodies. The sentiment from
speakers at the rally echoed the placards
carried by marchers who fi lled 6th Ave. as
making their way to Union Square: We’re
not going back. My body my choice.
PHOTOS BY TEQUILA MINSKY
“My body, my choice.”
Representative Carolyn Maloney always
standing up for women’s rights.
Amy Schumer leads off the rally.
Foley Square packed with demonstrators worried about women’s right to an
abortion.
Carol Jenkins (former co- anchor of WNBC) of Fund for Women’s Equality is
dedicated to the passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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