Activists to blockade Supreme Court ahead of expected abortion decision
June 4, 2022 | District of Columbia
Pro-abortion activists plan to blockade the U.S. Supreme Court as a final decision looms in a case that could reverse the long-standing high court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
The liberal group ShutDown DC announced this week that it plans to “blockade the streets around the Supreme Court” on June 13, one of the court’s decision days, to “rise up for the transformative change that our communities need.”
The group cited the early May leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health as the motivating factor behind the protest, which it has titled “ShutDown SCOTUS.”
In the draft decision, published in Politico on May 2, Alito wrote that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide was “egregiously wrong from the start” and “must be overruled.” Four other justices signed onto the draft opinion… (Excerpt from The Christian Post)
