Celebrities took to social media en masse to protest the approaching menace to abortion rights within the U.S. following the leak of the Supreme Courtroom’s draft majority opinion in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade.
The draft opinion, printed by Politico Monday, indicated the court docket was poised to overturn the landmark abortion rights determination, which might possible lead to bans on the process in additional than 26 states and will pave the way in which for Republicans to outlaw abortion nationwide. Nonetheless, the present model of the opinion is a draft, and justices should still change their votes.
Professional-choice and anti-abortion teams are already scrambling to answer the event. In Hollywood, the condemnation was swift.
“Present up. Be loud. The one that risked every part to leak that doc did so with the data that IT IS NOT YET DONE,” wrote actor Busy Philipps, a vocal abortion entry advocate. She stated the transfer had “NOTHING to do with BABIES and EVERYTHING to do with white supremacy and energy hungry politicians trying to maintain programs of oppression in place” and urged folks to attend protests.
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers revealed on social media that she’d had an abortion final fall and encouraged followers to donate to pro-choice advocacy teams and reproductive well being organizations throughout the U.S.
Comic Amy Schumer slammed Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a distinguished Republican supporter of abortion rights who was the deciding vote to substantiate Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Courtroom. Schumer stated she could be attending a Deliberate Parenthood protest in New York Metropolis on Tuesday at Foley Sq..
“Give us our dignity or we’ll take it. This is the reason we combat. See you on the market women,” she wrote.
Different celebrities to touch upon the draft opinion included actors Olivia Munn, Mia Farrow, Bette Midler, Elizabeth Banks, Susan Sarandon, Jameela Jamil, George Takei, Rosanna Arquette, Ashley Nicole Black and Mark Ruffalo; writer Jodi Picoult and filmmaker Lena Dunham:
