Anger and dismay erupted first outside the Supreme Court and quickly spread eastward throughout the country.
Anger and dismay erupted first outside the Supreme Court in moments after the decision was announced.
“I’m expecting at least tens of thousands of people in outpourings across the country tonight,” said Texas organizer Coco Das, who is a member of the Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights group.As Das spoke, police equipped with riot shields and wearing helmets were deployed to courthouses and other gathering spots across the country wherever protesters were gathering.
“So I’m just here to get my rage out,” Bracey said. “I want someone to listen to us. I don’t know how much this is really going to do, but I just feel very desperate.”“I’m not so much concerned for myself because I have access to proper birth control,” she said. “But I just feel so horrible for women who probably share the sentiments that I have, that I’m not ready for a child that won’t have access to the kind of care that they need in order to live their lives the way that I can.
“I feel like it’s important for me to be out here and let everyone know my religion says that that life begins with the first breath,” she said. “It’s in the Torah, and it’s in the Old Testament.”
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