(24 Jun 2024)
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Los Angeles – 24 June 2024
1. Various of women rallying with signs at the March for Reproductive Rights
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Emiliana Guereca, President of the Women’s March Foundation:
"Two years ago, women lost the right to reproductive rights. But we know that California leads the way. And we’re gonna continue to help women across the country continue to stay loud."
3. Women march in front of the Los Angeles City Hall building
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Xavier Becerra, US Health and Human Services Secretary:
"I bring a message from Washington DC- from the White House where it is clear that the president, vice president agree: we won’t go back. We will not go back."
5. A woman holds a metal clothes hangar on a sign reading: "Never Again" as another blows bubbles in the air
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, (D) California:
"And I have to tell you: this is not an anniversary that we celebrate. This is an anniversary that we activate."
7. Various of women with signs at the rally
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators supporting abortion and women’s rights gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall on the second anniversary of a ruling that jolted the legal status quo with a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Speakers at the March for Reproductive Rights included US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
"I bring a message from Washington DC- from the White House- where it is clear that the president, vice president agree: we won’t go back," he told the crowd of nearly 100 demonstrators. "We will not go back."
The June 24, 2022, ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization sparked legislative action, protest and numerous lawsuits — placing the issue at the center of politics across the country.
Abortion is now banned at all stages of pregnancy, with limited exceptions, in 14 Republican-controlled states and barred after the first six weeks or so in three others. Most Democratic-led states have taken actions to protect abortion rights, and become sanctuaries for those seeking care from out of state.
That’s changed the way abortions happen, making it more of a logistical and financial ordeal for many who obtain the care. But it has not reduced the number of them each month across the U.S.
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