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A Night in Union Square After Roe

Photoessay: Protestors gather in New York City, after the Supreme Court ruling reversing Roe V. Wade.

Jun 27, 2022

On the evening Friday, June 24, 2022, hundreds of people gathered in the rain in New York’s Union Square Park to protest the Supreme Court ruling, which reversed an almost 50-year precedent set by Roe V. Wade. All photos by Robert Stribley.

A man holds up a sign promoting the website abortionfinder.org

A sign in the rain on the steps at Union Square park reads: “Keep Your Laws out of my vagina!”

A woman holds a sign in Spanish which reads, “My body. My temple. My decision.” — A sign in Spanish reads, “My body. My temple. My decision.”

A woman with her friends shelters herself against the rain with a cardboard sign.

A woman holds a sign reading, “And since a man can’t make one he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.”

A woman holds a sign reading, “A mother by choice for choice.”

A Night in Union Square After Roe

Photoessay: Protestors gather in New York City, after the Supreme Court ruling reversing Roe V. Wade.

Written by Robert Stribley

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