Hours before the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a major abortion case, advocates on either side of the debate began preparing for what they see as the most consequential court case since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended the national right to an abortion.
Police informally estimated that about 600 to 700 individuals gathered outside the Supreme Court in the lead-up to oral arguments in a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions.
First Street Northeast, which separates the Capitol from the Supreme Court, was blocked to road traffic, and a diverse but predominantly female crowd chanted, marched and blared music in support of and against abortion rights.
