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'It feels like we're going back in time': Abortion rights protests quickly materialize in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times via MSN ^ | June 24, 2022 | By Nathan Solis, Julia Wick, Melissa Gomez

Posted on 06/24/2022 3:28:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As news of the Supreme Court's decision to end constitutional protections for abortion spread Friday morning, many in Southern California responded with a simple question: Where do we protest?

The overturning of the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision will not hinder reproductive health access in California, where abortion will continue to be protected under state law. But the landscape on the ground will look painfully different in other parts of the country.

The first Los Angeles crowds began to gather around noon outside a federal courthouse downtown .

Standing with the growing crowd, Francisca Romero, a 25-year-old actress originally from Uruguay, described the Supreme Court decision as a tipping point in the country.

The green bandana tied around her neck was similar to the ones worn by women's rights activists in Mexico and Argentina when they fought for abortion rights, she said. Other volunteers and organizers wore their own green bandanas printed with the words "Overturn Roe? Hell no!"

"To me it feels like we're going back in time," Romero said. She couldn't believe this moment was happening in the United States.

The crowd outside the courthouse quickly grew to more than a hundred people, then 200.

"This is a point we can either mobilize and come together and say, 'Enough is enough. We won't stand for it.' Or we're going to sit back and be complacent to violence," said Becca Waite, a 34-year-old organizer with Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights and a traveling emergency room nurse currently working in Orange County.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; dobbs; life; servantsofmoloch
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To: Pollard

There wereabout twelve purple-haired weirdos protesting outside the courthouse in my Texas town today. It was 103 in the shade. They didn’t last long. Snowflakes melt so deliciously.


41 posted on 06/24/2022 4:07:40 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dowcaet

Cali, Nevada, WA, IL and many other states, mostly in the Northeast allow abortion up to viability. 16-20 weeks generally

Colorado, Oregon and a handful of Northeast states allow it up to birth.

Cali is hardly going to be the only one so it’s going to be a matter of which state is closest or in the case of very late term, going to one of the handful that allows them up to birth.


42 posted on 06/24/2022 4:11:08 PM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: apillar

The cult of feral animals need new TVs, Nikes, watches & jewelry...so looting for abortion is the new game plan.


43 posted on 06/24/2022 4:18:14 PM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not far enough - we need to get back where common sense and life mattered 🤪


44 posted on 06/24/2022 4:34:14 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Chode

Someone needs to confront these demon possessed whores thusly: is whoring around that important to you? Here’s a compromise: you can still have your abortions — but you are immediately sterilized afterward so you can spread your legs all you want. Granted, you can never have kids but you are probably the sort that should never have them to begin with.


45 posted on 06/24/2022 4:34:23 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The LA Times is a vehicle for white BLM whores to spout the Marxist party line. What the execrable LA Times is not telling its readers is that the Mexicans are about to take over LA County.

All you FReepers who predicted that Mexicans will take over California, you were right and have been vindicated. And there’s not a thing that the criminal racist Newsome can do about it.

Entire communities that were populated by blacks have been cleansed and are now occupied by Mexicans.

The idiot white racists in the legislature pushing reparations for blacks will be crushed or ignored. No way the Mexicans will be handing money over to the racist BLM.

And if the punk Newsome tries to bully the Mexicans by calling out the guard - guess what? Half the guard is...wait for it...Mexicans.

Game. Set. Match.


46 posted on 06/24/2022 4:36:20 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t like it? Leave. Murdering babies is evil and never should of been allowed to begin with.


47 posted on 06/24/2022 4:38:26 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

Yep....go to a country that supports sacrificing the innocent, evil whiners.


48 posted on 06/24/2022 4:41:33 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: USAF1985

Yes..I’d like to go back to late 1970s, please!!!


49 posted on 06/24/2022 4:44:11 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: Jane Long

I know Ukraine does. You should see all the poor little kids living in parks in Kiev. No adults to help them, we had to come from other countries to help.

I’m tired of the evil left advancing unchecked, so this was great news today.


50 posted on 06/24/2022 4:45:43 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: LIConFem

Back in time ... Like to when babies were protected and queers were in the closet?


51 posted on 06/24/2022 4:46:47 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

100%


52 posted on 06/24/2022 4:48:04 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

Democrats are a death cult: Abortion, buggery, contraception, sexual mutilation ... they support every conceivable way to destroy the Human Race.


53 posted on 06/24/2022 4:48:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: goodnesswins

I could walk into a Pontiac showroom and walk out with a fully paid for car of my choice


54 posted on 06/24/2022 4:48:50 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why? Abortion is going to remain legal in CA. What are the dummies protesting?


55 posted on 06/24/2022 5:08:12 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“… Or we’re going to sit back and be complacent to violence.”

Trying to remember the last time conservatives were a party to violence (6 Jan does not count…false flag).


56 posted on 06/24/2022 5:14:05 PM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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If they close planned parenthood, where am I supposed to go to pick up trashy women?


57 posted on 06/24/2022 5:15:14 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: NorthMountain

they are worse than drugs and the plague they unleash on America


58 posted on 06/24/2022 5:18:38 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: sergeantdave

Wow, schadenfreude for those leftist weasals. And most Mexicans are Catholic and are NOT pro-abortion, so I doubt they will take kindly to these insane women stirring up chaos.


59 posted on 06/24/2022 5:21:33 PM PDT by boxlunch (Roe v Wade overturned, Hallelujah!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nope

Just correctioning an incorrect decision made awhile back in time.


60 posted on 06/24/2022 6:09:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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