On the first anniversary of the Supreme Court ending Roe v. Wade, 130 pro-abortion rights counter-protesters gathered in downtown Chicago, while across the street anti-abortion advocates held a rally in celebration of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Activists for and against abortion rights march on separate sides of West Adams Street on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed state governments to ban abortions on June 24, 2023, in Chicago.
Pride flags and cardboard signs decorated the east side of Federal Plaza. “Two, four, six, eight, abortion rights in every state!” protesters chanted. Beneath Alexander Calder’s Flamingo statue in Federal Plaza, local leaders in the anti-abortion community, including Peter Breen, a former state representative and current vice president of Thomas More Society, spoke with frustration about the work Illinois lawmakers are doing to expand access to abortion care.
LGBTQ groups aligned themselves with the pro-abortion rights group, arguing that this protest was about more than abortion. Thayer of the Gay Liberation Network took the microphone to express the importance of solidarity between differing social groups. “A Pritzker-run Illinois is an Illinois that doesn’t care about life,” said Birjan Crispin, of Wheaton. “We’re here to let the governor and a democratic controlled state know that we are here to stay and we are here to fight and protect for the unborn.”
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