Nationwide protests erupt after Roe v. Wade ruling [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Protests over the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade continued across the country this weekend. 
• Some protesters say they are concerned about what’s to come next from the Supreme Court.
• Musicians also called out the Supreme Court for banning abortion during their stage time.

Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade angered many Americans, pushing people to hit the streets again on Sunday for more protests. The Supreme Court overturned a 1973 ruling that makes it impossible to access abortions in at least 18 states.

From Washington, D.C., where on Friday the conservatives on the court swept aside a half-century of precedent to do away with the law, to the West Coast, protests broke out.

Hundreds gathered outside the Supreme Court Friday to protest its ruling, waving green and black signs, abortion-rights advocates gathered in front of the historic white marble building wearing green bandanas while shouting “my body, my choice.”

As several states enacted bans, both supporters and opponents of abortion rights mapped out their next moves.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called the overturning “a crisis of our democracy” and questioned the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

New York City’s Pride parade, which typically recalls the marches and riots of the gay rights movement, focused on a celebration of identities and abortion rights. Planned Parenthood helped lead the parade.

A protester at an abortion rights rally in Phoenix on Friday captured a video of Arizona law enforcement officials using tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters outside the Arizona State Capitol.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety “shot a ton of canisters at the group I was in, even though we were hundreds of feet away from the capitol building,” said Storm Elexandria Glassheart, 25, who shared footage of the protest on Twitter. “They did not warn us.” She said she also witnessed one woman collapse.

Tear gas was used after a part of a door was broken and after monuments were allegedly vandalized at a nearby plaza, Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves told NBC News.

A handful of music artists used their stage time over the weekend to call out the Supreme Court for banning abortion in the United States.

Olivia Rodrigo, Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers, who were all performing in the U.K. this weekend for the five-day Glastonbury Festival, all mentioned Friday’s ruling during their performances.

“I’m devastated and terrified … so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this,” Rodrigo said.

“Full House” actor Jodie Sweetin was thrown to the ground by police during an abortion rights protest on a Los Angeles freeway over the weekend, a representative for the actor confirmed.

The incident, which occurred Saturday, was captured on video and circulated on social media. The video appears to show police shoving a woman, dressed in black with a megaphone, to the pavement. Sweetin’s publicist confirmed she is the person in the video.

Pride marches across the United States took on new gravity Sunday as progressives worried that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court who voted to reverse Roe v. Wade could now overrule protections for other rights, including same-sex marriage and same-sex intimacy.

Source: NBC News