More than 100 people gathered outside the United States embassy in London to protest against today’s decision to scrap the constitutional right to abortion.
Elizabeth Kelly, treasurer of Democrats Abroad United Kingdom, addresses the protestors
Reporter Sian Bradley shared video of the protest, showing people chanting ‘Our body, our lives, our right to decide’. One attendee arrived wearing a costume from the Handmaid’s Tale, in which society is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property. It paves the way for individual states to set their own laws on whether to allow abortion, with many already set to introduce more restrictive laws.
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