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#Students stage school walkout against SCOTUS abortion leak

“Students stage school walkout against SCOTUS abortion leak”

Hundreds of New York City high school students put down their pencils and picked up placards Thursday to denounce the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion expected to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Water-soaked teens — gripping signs in the Washington Square Park fountain with phrases like “Not Your Uterus, Not Your Opinion” — told The Post they plan to protest the anticipated ruling every week until the final opinion is released.

“It’s so dangerous to not have the right to have an abortion, especially in drastic circumstances,” said Castle Bloodgood, 15, a student at iSchool from Jackson Heights, Queens. “So this is important to me.”

Hailing from high schools across the boroughs, including at least Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, the students marched from Union Square to the Greenwich Village park in what they said was their second and largest walkout yet.

“The idea is to create the kind of movement in the streets that puts forward that we are not going to allow the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade,” said Michelle Xai, referring to the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

New York City high school students staged a walkout  to protest the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade.
New York City high school students staged a walkout to protest the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade.
William Farrington
Hundreds of students gathered in the Washington Square Park fountain for the pro-abortion rights rally on May 12, 2022.
Hundreds of students gathered in the Washington Square Park fountain for the pro-abortion rights rally on May 12, 2022.
William Farrington

Xai, an organizer with Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, — a group that planned the walkout — said she and the other teens were “fighting for students to disrupt business as usual, to demand that the Supreme Court not overturn women’s right to abortion.”  

On their walk across downtown Manhattan, the students chanted exclamations like “Who’s choice? My choice. Who’s body? My body” and expletives like “Post Roe? F–k no.”

Some carried signs that read, “If It’s Not Your Body, It’s Not Your Choice.”

Some students plan to continue protesting every week until the court's decision is released.
Some students plan to continue protesting every week until the court’s decision is released.
William Farrington
Many of the high schoolers brought signs calling for Roe v. Wade to remain.
Many of the high schoolers brought signs calling for Roe v. Wade to remain in place.
William Farrington
The students came to the park from schools across the city.
The students came to the park from schools across the city.
William Farrington

The walkout took place more than a week after the draft of the majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico, sparking protests and outrage among pro-choice demonstrators and groups. The final Supreme Court decision in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could be released as early as next month.

“It’s just really decreasing women’s rights and her opportunity to participate in society,” said Zanny Fox, 15, a student at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, of the expected ruling.

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