Pro-abortion protestors marched in front of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home on Saturday wearing “blood” stained clothing and carrying toy dolls to protest the court’s potential overturn of Roe v. Wade.
The Saturday action adds to a series of protests at the residences of conservative Supreme Court justices.
“We aren’t incubators! Youth procession delivered baby dolls to Amy Coney Barrett. We aren’t protesting to change the minds of women-hating fascists. We’re calling on the pro-choice majority, on YOU, to get in the streets to STOP #SCOTUS from overturning Roe,” the Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Twitter account posted along with a video of the protest.
We aren't incubators! Youth procession delivered baby dolls to Amy Coney Barrett. We aren’t protesting to change the minds of women-hating fascists.We're calling on the pro-choice majority, on YOU, to get in the streets to STOP #SCOTUS from overturning Roehttps://t.co/Y0oCPlHcsr pic.twitter.com/nkHT7iamHO
— Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (@riseup4abortion) June 18, 2022
“Children forced to give birth to children! Women will be inferior! ALL OF U WHO ARE PRO CHOICE. Come to DC & stay!” one protestor declared in another post by the group.
Watch: 15 yr old Ariana who organized a baby doll procession speaks powerfully in front Amy Coney Barrett’s house
“Children forced to give birth to children! Women will be inferior! ALL OF U WHO ARE PRO CHOICE. Come to DC & stay!”#RiseUp4AbortionRights pic.twitter.com/ARhwVoSyWL
— Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (@riseup4abortion) June 18, 2022
The demonstration occurred just two days after President Joe Biden signed a bill to expand security protection for Supreme Court justices and their family members on Thursday.
The bill passed 396-27 on Tuesday, with all 27 votes opposing the legislation coming from Democrats. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate.
It was previously introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) in May following a leak of a Supreme Court opinion from Justice Samuel Alito. Alito’s draft indicated that the court might be set to overturn the Roe v. Wade precedent and return decisions regarding abortion laws to individual states.
The protest was in addition to a June 9 protest at Coney Barrett’s home, just one day after authorities arrested a man near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s residence for attempted murder.
“U.S. Deputy Marshals reported seeing a person dressed in black clothing, and carrying a backpack and suitcase, get out of a taxi that stopped in front of a current justice’s house at roughly 1:05 a.m., according to an affidavit,” CBS News reported.
The unprecedented leak has led to protests at the homes of other conservative justices. In addition, pro-life centers and houses of worship have been vandalized and attacked following the leak, with many of the incidents claimed by a pro-abortion group called Jane’s Revenge.
“We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat. We did not want this; but it is upon us, and so we must deal with it proportionally. We exist in confluence and solidarity with all others in the struggle for complete liberation,” members of Jane’s Revenge said in a letter last week.
“Our recourse now is to defend ourselves and to build robust, caring communities of mutual aid, so that we may heal ourselves without the need of the medical industry or any other intermediary. Through attacking, we find joy, courage, and strip the veneer of impenetrability held by these violent institutions,” the letter added.