Protestors gathered on Sunday, August 26 at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan. Their aim was to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court. The Unite for Justice event was sponsored by NARAL (theNational Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) and MoveOn.org. Similar events were held simultaneously in other US cities, including San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Houston. More than 30 women’s rights organizations organized the protests.
The Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund stated, “With this nomination, the constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion in this country is on the line. We must take Trump at his word that Kavanaugh would overturn Roe v. Wade and get rid of the Affordable Care Act.”
Pro-Trump and pro-Kavanaugh protestors were at the demonstration as well, and there was a bit of cross-talk between the groups. The pro-Trump supporters were against abortion and voiced their opinions to the pro-choice demonstrators who were protesting Kavanaugh’s appointment.
August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was first celebrated in 1973 and is proclaimed each year by the United States President.