Outside the supreme court, some chanted “Abortion is healthcare” and carried signs reading “Justices get out of my vagina”, “Legal abortion once and for all” and “We won’t go back”. In San Francisco, a man was arrested after scaling the 60-floor Salesforce tower, in an apparent anti-abortion protest. Thousands have joined rallies in New York, Boston, Nashville, Dallas, New Orleans and more. Protesters gathered outside the court on Tuesday, while demonstrations swelled throughout around the country – both in support of and against abortion rights. The draft ruling would allow states to declare abortion illegal. The New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, warned that the court “isn’t just coming for abortion – they’re coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on, which includes gay marriage and civil rights.”īiden, speaking to reporters on Tuesday morning, said the draft ruling had ramifications for “all the decisions you make in your private life, who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child, whether or not you can have an abortion and a range of other decisions how you raise your child”. The final ruling of the court will not be made until June. 02:52 'A radical decision': Biden condemns leaked US supreme court opinion on Roe v Wade – video
