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Sarah McCammon

On Juneteenth weekend, Black activists march for abortion rights

As activists gathered in a park just a short walk from the U.S. Supreme Court, Loretta Ross remembered the days before the Roe v. Wade decision.

"Fifty two years ago when I was a first-year student at Howard University, I had an abortion," Ross told the crowd, gathered on an unseasonably cool June afternoon. "It was easier then...than it is right now for our first-year students at Howard University."

Abortion rights supporters march to the Supreme Court as part of a rally pegged to the Juneteenth holiday weekend. (Sarah McCammon/NPR)
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