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I think as women in 2022 we need to keep empowering each other instead of fighting and trying to put women against one another. I was shocked to find that some of the women who wanted Roe vs Wade to be overturned were in fact women, I tried to fathom why women would want to take away their own rights? Do they not want the rights to their own body? What if it was their daughter that was raped, would they still force them to carry to term?

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I think that after my research and looking through every thing and with the Roe vs Wade coming up I wanted to really see what it means to be a women if our rights can be taken away so quickly. I wanted to look into it , I found that there are still some places in the world where while women might be "allowed" to vote if they tried to they would be punished or jailed for wanting to have an opinion. I hope that people can see what would happen if Roe vs Wade gets overturned, I put two people perspectives while they were different I think that both share lots of value. I don't think the world should be black and white I think men and women should be looked at the same, it should not matter what you have under your clothes you should have the same rights and should be paid the same as a male would be. Women earn only about 80% of what men do while doing the same job, in this day and age they should paid the same if the job they are doing is the same.

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Abortion Ruling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Women were seen wearing red Cloaks like in the book they wanted to represent the fact that we have been going back in time. They want their point to be heard, we deserve the right to our own uterus and our own body.

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The demonstration, organized by the group Boston Red Cloaks, opened with five minutes of silence before Carol Deanow, 79, walked to the microphone and described the illegal abortion she had in 1965, eight years before Roe was decided.

"I lived to tell the tale and to fight for abortion rights ever since," said Deanow, a Brookline resident who belongs to The Bad Old Days Posse, a group of activists who share stories from the pre-Roe era. "I'm still alive and I'm still fighting. What we're facing now in this country is catastrophic."

The draft opinion, published by Politico on Monday night and authenticated Tuesday by Chief Justice John Roberts, triggered an outpouring of reaction and demonstrations for and against the ruling, which hasn't been finalized.

More than 100 people, mostly women and girls, participated in Saturday's demonstration. They filled the staircase below the State House and concluded the speaking program by singing Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take it." Somerville City Councilor Kristen Strezo, a former member of a feminist punk band, led the song.

Earlier in the demonstration, Strezo said she has spent decades advocating for abortion rights.

"How am I still fighting for this?" she asked.

About half of US states are expected to ban abortion if Roe falls, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights think tank.

Massachusetts, however, won't be among them.

In 2020, the state passed the ROE Act over Republican Governor Charlie Baker's veto, codifying and expanding the right to abortion in Massachusetts. Under state law, abortion is legal through 24 weeks of pregnancy, as well as after that threshold, in cases with a fatal fetal anomaly or to preserve the health of a pregnant person. The ROE Act also allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to seek abortions without parental consent.

State Representative Tram Nguyen, an Andover Democrat, told the crowd at the Saturday rally that Massachusetts must prepare to help people who will travel here for abortions if Roe is overturned.

"Pregnancy is an extremely personal decision and that decision shouldn't be made by politicians, myself included. That is why we support choice," said Nguyen. Her legislative seat was previously held by Jim Lyons, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party and an abortion rights opponent.

Nguyen urged the crowd to support legislation proposed by state Representative Lindsay N. Sabadosa of Northampton that would allow health centers at the state's public colleges and universities to offer medical abortions.

"Here in Massachusetts we can do so much more to help pregnant people," she said.

Keiko Zoll, who spoke on behalf of the group, March Like a Mother For Black Lives, said if the draft opinion becomes law it could threaten privacy rights, marriages among same-sex and interracial couples, and access to contraception.

"Roe v. Wade isn't just about abortions. The GOP seeks to criminalize a legitimate medical procedure and punish women in the process," said Zoll, a Swampscott resident. "They refuse to enable our nation to move beyond its white, Euro-centric, heteronormative Christian patriarchal origins to become the America we all deserve. Overturning Roe v. Wade is not pro-life as they'd like us to believe."

Among the demonstrators were three middle-school girls from Maine. Amiah Sosa, 13, held sign that read, "YOU'RE PRO-LIFE UNTIL THE BABY IS...POOR, TRANSGENDER, BLACK, GAY, SICK, MEXICAN, DISABLED." Sosa's mother, Kayla Carpenter, said she drove her daughter and her two friends to the demonstration.

"I just hope that they know that they have a voice," Carpenter said in an interview.

The demonstration concluded with members of Boston Red Cloaks marching through Boston Common to the Brewer Fountain, holding a banner and signs hung from wire hangers, which signify the dangerous abortions conducted years back by desperate woman using them.

Jessie Steigerwald, the group's founder, said Saturday's participants ranged in age from 19 to 73, a sign of how abortion rights affects people at all stages of life.

"It's a multi-generational issue that's not settled," she said.

The youngest, Mataya Philbrick, 19, said it's hard to imagine Roe being overturned.

"I've grown up with this being a right to me," said Philbrick, a student at Harvard University.

Mary and Mark Lausier of Bangor, Maine, came across the demonstration while walking through Boston Common.

Mary Lausier said she worries that the end of Roe would set off a wave of challenges to rights protecting vulnerable groups, including the LGBTQ community.

"If they're starting with this, where else is this going to go in terms of people who are marginalized?" she asked. "It's a very complicated situation."

Laura Crimaldi can be reached at laura.crimaldi@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @lauracrimaldi. Nick Stoico can be reached at nick.stoico@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @NickStoico.

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The demonstration, organized by the group Boston Red Cloaks, opened with five minutes of silence before Carol Deanow, 79, walked to the microphone and described the illegal abortion she had in 1965, eight years before Roe was decided.

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In the book, it says they were talking about how they did not want to let women have abortions or birth control because of the birth rates and how they were high, in this world today there are over 400,000 children living in foster homes as of today in the United States. So I ask why to keep having kids when there are already 400 thousand kids that are in need of a home.

https://www.adoptuskids.org/meet-the-children/children-in-foster-care/about-the-children#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20most%20recent,slightly%20more%20boys%20than%20girls.

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Children and teens enter foster care through no fault of their own, because they have been abused, neglected, or abandoned and are unable to continue living safely with their families

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They wore the red cloaks to show their power and blood as a way of "rebellion".
When I was watching the news I saw that a few women were wearing red to tie the story to real life, the symbol that it shows was so powerful to people that this one book had a huge impact on women around the world because it says we are strong and we deserve to be in charge of our own menstrual cycle. We should not have to get approved for birth control or "not be allowed" to get an abortion. How can a women who gets raped and has an abortion get more prison time than the own man who raped her what does that say about us? What basic human rights will be taken away next?

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Luke ( A senior in high school)
A males perspective on Roe vs Wade

I feel as if a man is able to walk away from

having a child a woman should also have a

way out. In many cases, it is best to have

abortions not only if the person is too young

but also if the person is not financially stable.

It also doesn't make sense how you have to go

through such a long process to be able to

adopt but they want to force young women

who don't meet the qualifications as those

who want to adopt kids. If you can't grow a

fetus you should not have an opinion on this

topic!!!

May10th 2022

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Dana ( A senior in High school)
Ever since I was a young girl, my

mom and dad have always made

me aware of the injustices that

women and other minority

groups have faced. A big one we

would discuss a lot is abortion. I

was taught (and still think to this

day) that abortion and other

health care needs should never

be a political debate. It should

NEVER be up for discussion

because a woman has the right

to choose what they do to their

body. I would also like to speak

out as a victim of sexual assault,

I got assaulted on July 27th, 2021

and if I had gotten pregnant by

my assaulter and abortion weren't

legal, I would definitely not be

going to college and pursuing my

dream. It saddens me that this is

still up to debate. I am genuinely

worried for the future of our

country.

May 11th 2022