Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Shares Powerful Story During Protest On Roe Decision

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) shared a robust story about her emotions towards abortion throughout a protest over the Supreme Courtroom overturning Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Deliberate Parenthood on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez, who made an look in New York Metropolis’s Washington Sq. Park, advised abortion rights protesters that they have to be “relentless” to revive legalized abortion within the U.S.

The congresswoman thanked girls for sharing tales about abortions on the demonstration and determined to share her story a couple of time she could have wanted an abortion.

Ocasio-Cortez, who beforehand labored at a espresso store in New York Metropolis, stated there was a free household well being heart close to her office and he or she supported pals — together with sexual assault survivors — by bringing them to the middle once they wanted care.

She later shared a reminiscence concerning the time she questioned whether or not she wanted an abortion at 22 or 23 years outdated.

″[I] was raped whereas I used to be residing right here in New York Metropolis, I used to be fully alone...” Ocasio-Cortez stated.

“In reality I felt so alone I needed to take a being pregnant take a look at at a public toilet in Midtown Manhattan and after I sat there ready for what the end result can be, all I might suppose was ‘thank God I've at the very least a selection.’”

The congresswoman has spoke out on abortion rights prior to now together with in 2021 when she advised GOP politicians they had been “trying to legislate reproductive methods that they know nothing about.”

You possibly can watch the congresswoman’s latest tackle to New York Metropolis protesters beneath.

AOC simply arrived on the Union Sq. occasion the place girls are sharing their abortion tales. She simply advised the group how when she was raped in her early 20s, she was grateful to know that, had she turn into pregnant, abortion care was available. pic.twitter.com/wBUIDB5gcC

— Jenna Amatulli (@ohheyjenna) June 25, 2022

Extra on the Supreme Courtroom abortion ruling:

• Supreme Courtroom strikes down Roe v. Wade, dismantling decades-old precedent
• Roe overturned: The battle begins
• Abortion is now unlawful in these states
• Liberal justices dissent with “sorrow” for “thousands and thousands of American girls”
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We have now to fill the streets”
• Clarence Thomas: Circumstances defending homosexual marriage and contraception must be subsequent
• Republicans make it clear they wish to ban abortion nationwide
• Donald Trump praises SCOTUS determination
• West Coast states launch a plan to guard out-of-state abortion sufferers
• Right here’s how the world is reacting to the top of Roe