Posted on 06/24/2022 5:15:22 PM PDT by Morgana
Protesters sang and chanted outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday night, after he revealed he now has laws protecting gay marriage, gay sexual activity and contraception in his sights, after axing Roe v. Wade.
A crowd of several dozen people waved placards, drummed and waved flags.
'My body, my choice!' they yelled, holding aloft posters labelling Thomas a 'treasonous turd' and proclaiming: 'Reproductive rights = human rights.'
One woman wore the rainbow-colored tabard of abortion clinic workers, who protect the women seeking treatment and being threatened by pro-life agitators outside.
There was no visible police presence, but it was likely there: on June 16, Joe Biden signed into law the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, providing security for the immediate families of the nine justices and other officers of the court.
An armed man was arrested on June 8 outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and charged with attempted murder.
Following Friday's landmark decision, Thomas became a particular lightning rod for activists, after he called on his fellow jurists to overturn previous rulings that followed similar legal precedent.
The prospective law changes, released in a concurring opinion of the decision penned by Thomas, would see limits put on gay marriage, same-sex sexual activity, and citizens' access to birth control.
It comes as the Supreme Court controversially elected to strike down Roe v. Wade, a nearly 50 year-old decision that granted women the constitutional right to abortion.
Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, spoke from the steps of City Hall on Friday and proclaimed that his city was ready to welcome those women who needed an abortion, but were unable to get one in their home state.
He also revealed that, when he was 15, his then-girlfriend needed and got an abortion.
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I understand power but I don’t understand your post. Perhaps you thought I meant something different from what was intended? The left has power and uses it largely for bad purposes. The right has only limited power, by good fortune some of it within the Supreme Court, and has used that limited power. Anyway the ruling does not “ban abortion” as some are saying but simply underscores the rights of states to regulate it. That will not ban abortion in half the states (by population at any rate). So what is it that I am not understanding?
No, that has been what people are saying. If it had been two Liberal Judges and protestors marching in their neighborhood, they would have blocked off the street.
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