Crowds of pro-choice and antiabortion protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Friday morning after justices overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade case.
Demonstrators faced off holding signs and banners with opposing messages—“abortion on demand & without apology” and “dismember roe”— while others stormed the streets with megaphones. The crowd began as a pre-planned anti-abortion rally, attended briefly by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and grew as counterprotesters and others awaiting the decision joined.
“I feel betrayed, and I feel lost,” 19-year-old Skye told NBC. “Hopefully, in the future, we can have some progress and not just be moving backward.”
Another said they scaled Washington, D.C.’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to fly a green banner, a color associated with the fight for abortion rights, from the top of one of its arches.
A pro-life supporter declared “This is amazing. This is probably the best day in American history in my lifetime!” To TalkTV.
The much-anticipated decision has brought a consistent group of protesters in front of the Supreme Court on weekdays that the court has scheduled to release an opinion. Protesters have also marched regularly near the justices’ houses in the D.C. Area.
Here is what it looked like outside of the Supreme Court on the day that the justice overturned the national right to an abortion.
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