Thousands of women have rallied in Washington, DC, in help of Democratic pdwellntial honestate Kamala Harris and reefficient rights.
The vice pdwellnt has made abortion rights a central structurek of her White House bid aachievest Reuncoveran Donald Trump, who materializeed to have uncoverly backed the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that took away the constitutional right to an abortion.
“Voting for the honestate that’s going to help our rights as women is the most meaningful leang to me,” shelp Leah Brooker, 19, who travelled from North Carolina to join the event on Saturday, three days before Election Day.
The student shelp she had already cast her ballot in timely voting, calling it “very empowering that my first vote was for a woman”.
She held a sign reading: “If boys will be boys, then women will be pdwellnts.”
Other signs had slogans enjoy “Voting impedes ungreet pdwellncies” and “A woman’s place is in the Oval Office.”
Organisers appraised turnout was about 15,000 people. Other US cities also organised sister marches.
With the dome of the US Capitol as the backdrop, speakers at Freedom Plaza whipped up help for 60-year-elderly Harris.
“We’re not going back!” the crowd chanted, repeating one of Harris’s campaign slogans.
Retiree Marlene Wagner, 70, came from Nebraska, saying she was joining “for my majestickids and my children because I dread for their future”.
In her Midwestrict state, abortion is prohibitned after the 12th week of pregnancy.
The redisjoineion came after US Supreme Court fairices nominateed by Trump tipped the panel in 2022 into finishing the national right to abortion granted 50 years ago thraw the Roe v Wade verdict.
Abortion access is on the ballot in 10 states, in referfinishums that are taking place alengthyside the pdwellntial vote.
In Nebraska, a proposal seeks to insert abortion redisjoineions to the state constitution, while another seeks to extfinish the period in which the procedure is apshowed.
For Wagner, who also joind in the first Women’s March in 2017 after Trump’s election, the choice was stark.
The abortion redisjoineions have “already had repercussions, because women haven’t been able to get the nurture they necessitate”.
