My favorite was the energetic woman standing in front of them counter protesting. She told everyone that walked by, “these guys are idiots.” She seemed to be really enjoying herself.

Prepare for them to be there for this. With graphic imagery on signs held by some Gravy Seal with his face and arms covered.

If they were at the light by the Wellmont theater, a clinic is across the street. They show up from time to time and have even before the ruling.

This may be a pro-choice state, but if the Republicans control all three branches of the federal government, abortion will be illegal nationwide. And while we’re not voting for president or Senate this year, any House seat that turns red puts the entire country one step closer to a full-on abortion ban.

The entire country had the right to abortion for nearly 50 years, and we all got complacent, and now the Supreme Court will be ruling on a case that could abolish states rights. (The only people who cared about those are fully prepared to make the entire country bend to their will permanently.)

Put it this way, during the years leading up to this when Roe V Wade was upheld, did the anti-choice crowd stop having rallies and marches in every state? No.

Lol, right? And Montclair too, of all places. I suppose visibility still matters, even when preaching to the choir.

My first thought.. why we protesting in Jersey?

I assumed we still respected women in this state unlike the confederates scum?

I doubt they’d care what you want to nickname yourselves. The only people with bunched panties seem to be the pro choice crowd who absolutely hate that pro-lifers have that brand.

Unfortunately, their hold is not filibuster proof.

Repugnants have enough votes to keep it off the floor.

We’re watching republicans to try to ban it federally.

Why should that matter? Should people only show up to rally and support causes in specific places you think are important?

Healthy babies at 3rd trimester usually have names and gifts for them picked out already. By then, their nursery is painted and put together and moms to be are usually attending baby showers. I've never heard of anyone wanting an abortion that late. I'd consider the process at that stage agonizing.

Idk how welcome you'd feel, but there are a lot of personal stories shared at a march like this. In general, pro choice marches can be very upfront and graphic about the subject. Hard to predict who will say what, but i doubt anyone would start hostile or violent. Never seen violence at a pro choice rally.

You're completely entitled to your beliefs. If you support the decision regarding ending a pregnancy being between a pregnant person and their doctor, who would be performing the abortion, you are welcome.

What wouldn't be welcome is someone who would support, or advocate for, laws that take that decision away from a pregnant person and their doctor. Legislating the "extenuating circumstances" that you list is, at best, a very slippery slope. There are very, very few pregnancies that are terminated in the third trimester. If a pregnant person does need one of those, should they have to wait for their doctor to clear it with legal to proceed? If they are even willing to do such a procedure in the first place, for fear of legal or religious retribution? That is why people who support a right to choose don't necessarily accept these types of legislation.

Women in other states are being left with knowing that they cannot even get rid of embryos that, by all intents and purposes, would not survive and be spontaneously aborted in many cases. In which cases, in some states, they would be charged with crimes of the homicide variety, through no fault of their own. That's what this march is about.

I have never met a woman, whether it's a mother, hope to be a mother, or hope to never be a mother, who advocates for these late term abortions like people complain we do. So if you want to support anyone who wants to be pregnant, come. Or anyone who hopes to never be pregnant. Or anyone who doesn't know if they want to be pregnant. If you want to proselytize about how you would like to draw lines, with no knowledge of the individual people who are going through very different situations, stay home.

People aren’t really going into the idiosyncrasies of their ideologies at these things. A lot of people will disagree with you but doubt it will come up.

Good question, I never really gave abortion much thought till my daughters sat me down and gave me a talk.

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no one asked

Well, DeGroot is sending texts saying Sherrill backs the sale of “baby parts,” and every time I go to ShopRite there’s always a car or two with antiabortion stickers.

Maybe they’re statistically the minority, but it’s a reminder to never be complacent. Because these people always vote.

Errr the civil rights act is on the chopping block in the supreme court this week which will curtail methodology to prevent extreme gerrymandering. See what happens after some creative redistricting.

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