“I think Roe was a foundational court case that paved the way for a lot of other things we saw happen after that like interracial marriage, and gay marriage - the government not having so much overreach into our personal lives,” said Lauren McKillip, 29. “It’s important for us to come here for our daughter, for our marriage, for all the things now established so that our daughter doesn’t have to fight for it,” said Marissa McKillip, 28. Marissa McKillip held their son Lincoln, 4, on her shoulders as her wife, Lauren, cradled their 2-year-old daughter, Thea, in a soft blue wrap. Lauren McKillip and her wife Marissa McKillip of Crofton, Maryland “We are just here supporting the cause and abolishing abortion.” “We aren’t big talkers,” said Kayla Cropp. The group wore light blue T-shirts with the phrase, “We are the pro-life generation,” emblazoned on the front. The 26-year-old twin sisters came to the Supreme Court with the group Students for Life on a recent day when court rulings were announced, hoping to be there when the Roe v. K’Vone Cropp, and Kayla Cropp of Richmond, Virginia She and another pregnant friend represented the group 500 Women Scientists. “It’s important to show that just because we support the right to choose, doesn’t mean we can’t also be pregnant.” “I think there is a dichotomy set up on abortion and pregnancy,” she said. Seven months pregnant, Bradley-Cook marched by the court with the words “No Forced Pregnancy” written across her bare belly. “It’s important for all of us to come together, it’s not just a women’s issue.” He said he feared that the court wouldn’t stop at abortion and that gay marriage could be one of the things that’s next.ĭrees, 27, said, “It’s important for a democracy to have equal rights for all, and this makes women and all people with uteruses less equal and have less power.” “It’s important for me, identifying as a man, to have that presence here,” said Zaidel, 28. The pair joined abortion rights protesters on Saturday, May 14, outside the White House on their way to the National Mall during protests across the country.
Rob Zaidel and Danny Drees, both of Washington Rykaczewski is already making plans to return to the Supreme Court to celebrate if the opinion overturning Roe v. On the other hand, a goal is to make women feel like they don’t need abortions anymore, to make help for women in difficult situations so there isn’t even a demand for abortion anymore.” On one hand we will want to enact laws on a state level to make abortions as rare as possible. “Once it’s overturned, for the pro-life movement this is only the beginning,” said Rykaczewski, who goes by the handle, “Pro Life Barbie” on social media. With a hot pink bullhorn, matching lipstick, and pink eyeshadow, Grace Rykaczewski, 21, was in a triumphant mood at the thought of Roe v. Grace Rykaczewski of Morristown, New Jersey
“I’m just sorry that Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t alive to support us,” she said. “We just weren’t ready to get married at that time,” says Wendie Lubic, who later did marry the man and they have two daughters.īenita Lubic blames Senate Republicans for blocking the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland during the final months of President Barack Obama’s last term, but then fast-tracking the nomination of the newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, less than two months before the election. Wendie Lubic, 60, also had an abortion, in 1986, although she didn’t tell her mother about it until years later. “I’m a senior citizen so I am way past having another child, but I do want to help younger people, particularly those who have been raped and abused, that they will be able to get an abortion,” said Lubic, 86. She was allowed a medical abortion in Washington, D.C., but doctors also performed a partial hysterectomy, she believes, to ensure she would have no further pregnancies. In 1968, and with three children already, Benita Lubic’s IUD birth control device failed. Capitol and the Supreme Court, holding a handwritten sign saying, “I don’t regret my abortion.” A widow, Lubic was joined by her daughter Wendie Lubic, sitting in a black canvas camping chair between the U.S.