Terrisa Bukovinac stands among hundreds of pro-abortionists as she yells, “Abortion is murder!” Moments later, a chorus erupts: “Goodbye!
Get out!” The people raise their signs, they clap and shout.
Finally, security forces in yellow vests escort the four anti-abortionists out of the crowd.
You shouldn't stay here.
It shouldn't be unnecessarily provoked, the atmosphere is heated up anyway.
Sofia Dreisbach
North American political correspondent based in Washington.
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Bukovinac has been before the Supreme Court in Washington every day that a decision on federal abortion rights could have been made.
The pro-abortion protesters don't scare her.
She is the founder of the organization Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, "on the steps of the Supreme Court," as she puts it.
Today she has come again to make her point.
When Bukovinac became an atheist, she says, the idea of babies going to heaven was over.
"That's when I saw it was murder.
That we kill people,” says the young woman.
Near her are two men in black - her private security team.
When the Supreme Constitutional Court announced on Friday morning that it would overturn the almost fifty-year-old landmark decision on abortion, Bukovinac "cried away all her mascara" - "overwhelmed with joy".
Then she went home to get ready.
They want to ban abortion completely
On Friday afternoon, only a few beads of sweat on her face testified to the heat of the Washington summer day.
Shortly after the Supreme Court's decision, she said: "I didn't expect to feel such intense feelings.
But I'm so glad that today we're one step closer to our goal of ending abortion in America.”
On Friday, a few meters from Bukovinac, there were thousands of women and a few men fighting for exactly the opposite.
Many of them have tears in their eyes when a protester calls on them to shout on three.
They screech in front of the taller than man-high fence at the glistening white pillars of the Supreme Court, they boo, some shout: "Fuck you!"
The cordon has been in place since the first week of May, when Politico published a Supreme Court draft on Roe v.
Wade of 1973, which suggested repealing the rule, was punctured and protests began to take place outside the building.
No scene should commemorate the violent storming of the Capitol last January, when angry Trump supporters mobilized under the pretense of a stolen election.
In his speech after the decision, President Joe Biden warned that the protests should remain peaceful.
"Violence is never a solution." Thousands of protesters gathered in various cities across America on Friday.
The court's ruling on Friday morning overturned the nationwide right to abortion.
By a five-to-four vote, the judges of the conservative-dominated court have returned the decision on abortion laws to the states after almost fifty years - and at least 13 of them have so-called trigger laws for exactly this case, with abortions in most cases immediately or become illegal within a short period of time.
Abortion bans on the same day
Abortion bans were passed in seven conservative states on the same day.
Some states, such as New York or Illinois, had announced before the final decision that they wanted to be a safe haven for women who had abortions.
The previous abortion law ensured that a woman has a right to an abortion up to around the 24th week.
The reason for the Supreme Court's preoccupation with abortion law was a case from Mississippi.
The last remaining abortion clinic in the country had challenged a 2018 law that only allowed abortions up to about 16 weeks.
The judges ruled that this was constitutional and, with the exception of Supreme Court President John Roberts, voted in favor of overturning the landmark decision of Roe v.
to tilt calf.
According to Bukovinac and her friend, who appeared before the Supreme Court for the first time on Friday, that's correct.
There is no equality in a world where "babies are killed".
She thinks that's also true in the case of rape, which in Texas, for example, will no longer be one of the exceptions that make abortion after fertilization possible.
But in the afternoon there are hardly any anti-abortion activists in front of the Supreme Court.
The mass of the demonstrators are angry about the decision.
They carry placards with hangers - a symbol of highly dangerous, self-performed abortions -, signs like: "Our body, our choice", "Keep your politics out of my uterus" or "Hey Alito, fuck you!".
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote the reasoning for the decision against the landmark decision, which says Roe v.
Wade was "grossly wrong" from the start.
Many of the young women before the Supreme Court on Friday can hardly believe that in many American states it will not be possible to legally have an abortion in the future.