WASHINGTON ¨C Hundreds of abortion-rights campaigners, including Democrats seeking their party¡¯s 2020 presidential nomination, rallied in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to protest new restrictions on abortion passed by Republican-dominated legislatures in eight states.
Many of the restrictions are intended to draw legal challenges, which religious conservatives hope will lead the nation¡¯s top court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a woman¡¯s right to terminate her pregnancy.
¡°We are not going to allow them to move our country backward,¡± U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, one of the two dozen Democrats running for president, told the crowd through a megaphone.
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