PERSONAL: 'Abortion saved my sister', woman confronts anti-abortion campaigners in DC

Record ID: 1853344

  • Title: PERSONAL: 'Abortion saved my sister', woman confronts anti-abortion campaigners in DC
  • Date: 3rd November 2024
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 2, 2024) (REUTERS) LARGE CROWD ATTENDING WOMEN'S MARCH WOMEN'S MARCH PARTICIPANT AND D.C. RESIDENT, ALEXA DICKMAN (GREEN CAMO CAP), CONFRONTING ANTI-ABORTION CAMPAIGNERS AT RALLY, SHOUTING: "ABORTION SAVED MY SISTER!" VARIOUS OF DICKMAN CHANTING WITH OTHERS (English): "WE WON'T GO BACK" DENIM JACKET WITH PINS PROMOTING WOMEN'S RIGH
  • Embargoed: 17th November 2024 02:54
  • Keywords: Election Day Harris Roe v Wade Trump White House Women's March abortion reproductive rights
  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001667802112024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Alexa Dickman, a Washington, D.C. resident participating in the massive Women's March on Saturday (November 2) made sure her voice was heard when she confronted anti-abortion campaigners who turned up at the event.
    "Abortion saved my sister!" shouted Dickman as women's rights activists surrounded chanting protesters who held up anti-abortion signs.
    Dickman told Reuters that both her sister and mother had undergone abortions before, and although she does not want to be a mother herself, she considers it important to defend the rights of women as they should make their own reproductive choices.
    Dickman, originally from Massachusetts but a D.C. area resident now for 11 years, was among the thousands of people who took part in the march that started at Freedom Plaza and ended near the White House.
    Women energized by calls for change and equality waved flags and held signs as they chanted, "We're not going back".
    Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump has taken credit for appointing the justices who helped overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which ended the nearly 50-year federal right to abortion in 2022.
    The court's 2022 decision triggered a voter backlash that was widely credited with curbing Republican gains in the congressional midterm election that year, and propelled Democrats to victories in some state elections the following year.
    The reversal of Roe v. Wade allowed the matter of abortion to be decided state-by-state, and Republicans responded by enacting restrictive laws in nearly two dozen states.
    Trump's Democratic opponent and current Vice President Kamala Harris has made defending abortion rights one of the main promises of her campaign in her bid to reach the White House.
    (Production: Ayhan Uyanik, Leonardo Benassatto, Andrea Rodriguez)
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