Abortion rights protests resume across Los Angeles, channeling outrage and anguish

Chandrika Metivier with a “Cancel SCOTUS” sign at City Hall during an abortion-rights protest June 25 in downtown Los Angeles. Several hundred demonstrators gathered and marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, channeling anger, frustration and grief as they denounced the Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to abortion. “I worried about my future — women’s future.” Hundreds marched through downtown Los Angeles on Friday, protesting the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Martinez lamented the influence of religious views on government policies and how lawmakers were imposing their beliefs on the wider citizenry: “Your religion cannot dictate the laws of the country.” Helen Li, 25, of Virginia, said the reversal of Roe vs. Wade sparked a conversation in her own family about abortion, and on Saturday she carried a sign outside City Hall that read, “My mother had an abortion so that my sister and I could have a right to life.” “The right to life, in my opinion, doesn’t just mean conception,” Li said. “This type of raw violence on display in Los Angeles and across the nation from dangerous mobs hell-bent on destruction has nothing to do with a woman’s right to choose.” Hundreds protest the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles.