More than 10,000 people gathered in Washington Square Park and Union Square to voice their outrage over the once-seemingly unthinkable decision.
Last month, a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, indicating that the court was leaning towards repealing the landmark 1973 decision.FOX 5 NY speaks with Sonia Ossorio, President of the National Organization for Women, New York, about the landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Pregnant women considering abortions already had been dealing with a near-complete ban in Oklahoma and a prohibition after roughly six weeks in Texas. Clinics in at least eight other states — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota, Wisconsin and West Virginia — stopped performing abortions after Friday's decision.
In Ohio, a ban on most abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat became the law when a federal judge dissolved an injunction that had kept the measure on hold for nearly three years. And Utah's law was triggered by the ruling, going into effect with narrow exceptions. In New York, abortion care providers have said they are already taking preparations to deal with an increase in out-of-state patients.
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