Washington:
Multiple U.S. organizations supporting abortion rights called for nationwide protests on May 14 on Thursday, after a leaked draft advisory showed the Supreme Court was ready to reverse its landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
“We don’t have the luxury of wasting time,” Kelley Robinson, executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund — the political arm of the reproductive health care provider Planned Parenthood — said at a joint news conference Thursday.
Robinson, along with leaders of three other national progressive organizations, called for a “mass day of action” on May 14 and announced four “anchor marches” in New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as “hundreds of events across the country.”
“Nationally we are going to express our outrage,” Robinson said.
The groups are also pushing for more mobilization over the summer, when the final Supreme Court decision will be made.
“It is no exaggeration to say that this will be a summer of anger for the women of this country,” said Rachel Carmona, head of the Women’s March group, which was founded by the organizers of the first national opposition rally against former President Donald Trump. Trump. in 2017.
Protests have erupted across the country since Monday night, when the news channel Politico published a draft Supreme Court opinion saying that the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision enshrining the national right to abortion was “extremely wrong from the outset.” used to be’.
“We believe that Roe and Casey (another case that affirms the right to abortion) should be overruled,” conservative judge Samuel Alito wrote in the 98-page draft.
On Tuesday, more than a thousand protesters on both sides of the hotly debated issue gathered outside the Supreme Court headquarters in Washington.
Law enforcement officers in the country’s capital, who are still on edge after the right-wing riots on January 6, 2021, have already erected a temporary fence around the courthouse.
‘See you at the ballot box’
The leaked ruling has also brought the issue of abortion to the center of the November congressional midterm elections, potentially opening a way for beleaguered Democrats to stem expected losses.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that “it will fall to voters to” elect officials who support abortion rights, and vowed to work on legislation in Congress codifying Roe v. Wade.
“We’re seeing an energy we haven’t seen before,” Rahna Epting, MoveOn’s executive director, said at the joint press conference Thursday.
“Our message to Republicans is clear,” she said.
“We’ll see you on the street in May. We’ll see you on the street in June and for God’s sake we’ll see you at the polls in November.”
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts described the leak Tuesday as a “betrayal”.
“Judge officials have an exemplary and important tradition of respecting the confidentiality of the judicial process and upholding the confidence of the court,” Roberts said in a statement.
“This was a special and flagrant breach of that trust.”
The Chief Justice also announced that an investigation would be launched to find out who leaked the document.
DailyExpertNews reported on Thursday that, at his first public event since Monday, Roberts said the leaker would be “foolish” to believe they could influence the judges’ views, and that “one bad apple” could affect the “people’s perception” of the judges. court would not change.
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