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Abortion rights advocates show successful beforehand of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, successful Washington, arsenic the tribunal hears arguments successful a lawsuit from Mississippi, wherever a 2018 instrumentality would prohibition abortions aft 15 weeks of pregnancy, good earlier viability. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of termination statement partisans crowded the plaza successful beforehand of the Supreme Court connected Wednesday, trading chants arsenic justices heard the highly anticipated arguments inside.

“Whose choice?” “My choice!” was a predominant call-and-response connected the termination rights side, countered by "Hey hey, ho ho, Roe v. Wade has got to go.”

Jo Luttazi, wearing gloves emblazoned with “Bans Off Our Bodies” connected the palms, said everyone should person entree to termination arsenic a signifier of wellness care.

“As idiosyncratic who is assigned pistillate astatine birth, and having pistillate anatomy, I person had a unspeakable clip trying to conscionable beryllium capable to beryllium successful power of my body,” the 22-year-old said. “So issues astir bodily autonomy person ever been precise adjacent to my heart. I knew I had to beryllium here.”

A pistillate who wanted to beryllium identified lone arsenic Nancy held a motion with an American emblem connected it that said “Pray.”

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“We request to travel unneurotic to halt the execution of millions of children,” she said. “I don’t recognize wherefore that’s truthful controversial. I’m retired present to workout my First Amendment close and I privation that would beryllium respected.”

The assemblage rallying with the Center for Reproductive Rights swelled to astir 400 arsenic the prima roseate implicit the majestic building, outnumbering the anti-abortion demonstrators holding up images of fetuses.

“You request to repent,” 1 antheral yelled into a bullhorn, trying to drown retired an termination rights speaker. “You privation women to execution babies. You emotion the execution of children.”

The center's president and CEO, Nancy Northup, drew cheers erstwhile she said her organization's lawyers person defended termination rights earlier the nation's highest tribunal 4 times successful the past six years.

“Four trips to the Supreme Court successful six years is 4 trips excessively many,” Northrup said. “We are present to win.”

Democrats Diana DeGette and Barbara Lee, co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, were among the representatives who appeared. Lee told the assemblage of her acquisition getting an abortion.

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“I retrieve what it was similar earlier Roe v. Wade. I survived. Many women, particularly Black women, did not survive. We volition not spell backmost to those ways,” Lee said.

“This contented is astir radical equality and justice. This determination is astir the close to marque decisions astir your ain body. The close to termination isn’t existent unless everyone tin entree it.”

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