During the first post-Roe vs. Wade weekend, Angelenos gathered to express their frustration with the Supreme Court's decision to end a constitutional right to abortion.
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[Essential California Newsletter] PRESENTED BY Californians for Solutions * June 27, 2022
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[Click to view images]( march in downtown L.A. at an abortion rights rally on Saturday. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Good morning and welcome to the Essential California [newsletter](. Itâs Monday, June 27. Iâm Marisa Gerber, filling in for Justin Ray. Protesters marched along the 110 Freeway on Friday waiting for their cue. âSupreme Court?â a voice beamed through a megaphone. âIllegitimate!â they chanted back. Later that evening, at a gathering on the grounds of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, a 17-year-old stood silently holding a candle and wearing a T-shirt that read, âOur Bodies. Our Futures. Our Abortions.â The next day, [another crowd packed]( into Pershing Square with handmade signs â one showed an image of a wire hanger and the words âNEVER AGAINâ and another read, âAgainst abortion? Have a vasectomy.â These were the sights and sounds of the first post-Roe vs. Wade weekend in one slice of a nation still stunned â some with joy, others with sadness and shame â by the [Supreme Courtâs decision to end]( a constitutional right to abortion. Itâs a decision that veteran Supreme Court reporter David G. Savage says [points to a larger pattern.]( âThis is not the Supreme Court most Americans have known,â Savage writes. He highlighted two other recent rulings, which [struck down]( a New York gun law and [paved the way]( for parents to seek state aid for religious schools, as proof that the era of the court defined by moderates is over. That reality terrifies some Californians, including advocates for the queer community, who worry that the courtâs conservative majority could soon move to reverse earlier rulings such as legalized same-sex intimacy and same-sex marriage, [my colleague Tyrone Beason reports.]( While reporting from the OC Pride parade this weekend, he met Yashia Garcia, who told him that sheâd sobbed Friday morning after reading about the ruling â it felt, she said, as if the nation had reverted to a more repressive time. âMy mother, who came to the country as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic in 1978, had more rights than I do today,â Garcia said. âI donât have the word to describe how that feels. Well, I do, but theyâre all curse words. More Roe vs. Wade coverage â âSo what youâre saying is we canât get an abortion today? I just drove eight hours.â My colleague Molly Hennessy-Fiske [takes us inside a Texas abortion clinic]( the moment the landmark case was overturned. â How did we get here? [Read about the four key turning points]( that led to the fall of Roe vs. Wade. â The Los Angeles Police Departmentâs [actions during abortion rights protests this weekend]( including shoving an independent journalist to the ground, are part of a broader, longstanding problem, press observers noted. â Across the Southland on Sunday, [some pastors praised the Supreme Courtâs ruling and others lamented it.]( And now, hereâs whatâs happening across California: Note: Some of the sites we link to may limit the number of stories you can access without subscribing. ADVERTISEMENT BY Californians for Solutions
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