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What Protestors Said Outside the Supreme Court This Weekend
What Protestors Said Outside the Supreme Court This Weekend
“Repeat after me: Misoprostol.”
BY MOLLY OLMSTEAD
JUNE 27, 20225:45 AM
(Slate) The day after Roe v. Wade was struck down, hundreds of people rallied in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington. A small number of anti-abortion protesters were there to celebrate, but mostly the crowd was protesting the choice, by the Supreme Court, to summarily strip Americans of reproductive rights.
One of the speakers, her voice amplified over the heads of onlookers, expressed her frustration with Congress, saying there was little reason to hope that elected Democrats would do anything to help protect reproductive rights. So she had come with a different message.
“Repeat after me,” she said into a microphone. “Misoprostol.”
The crowd yelled the medication name back at her.
“We sometimes call it mEYE-so, or miso, like the soup,” she added. “It’s safer than Tylenol.” ................(more)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/roe-dobbs-abortion-scotus-protests.html
