About 400 people turned out to Main Beach in solidarity with a national march supporting women’s reproductive rights on Saturday.
Orange County Sup. Katrina Foley and Assemblymember Cottie Petrie Norris (D-Laguna Beach) were among the elected officials who joined in the protest. They were joined by congressional candidate Harley Rouda.
The crowd of men and women waived signs emblazoned with messages that included “My body my choice” and “Choice means you choose, not them” at motorists passing on South Coast Highway.
A pair of counter-protesters stood on a corner across the street, talking into a bullhorn and holding up competing signs, including one that read “Not your body, not your choice. Abortion is murder.”
Several Laguna Beach police officers were on the scene observing the protest but no disturbances were reported.
“This march is about a woman’s right to reproductive healthcare; it is not about being pro-abortion. We are standing up for the individual woman’s right to choose for herself, and for the Roe vs Wade decision in 1973 to be upheld by our current Supreme Court,” Gwen McNallan, president of the Laguna Beach Democratic Club, said in a press release announcing the rally.
The march is sponsored by Women’s March Action, a national coalition of more than 90 organizations mobilizing in cities across the nation ahead of the reconvening of the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 4.
Andrea Adelson contributed reporting to this story.
I love that they were there saying My body my choice. So how come it doesn’t apply to vaccines that are being forced on us?? My body my choice. I’m not against vaccines and am not saying that – but what I am saying is what happened to my choice??? I think this is so hypocritical.
Right on.
The theory of Michele’s letter needs more focus, e.g. ABSTAIN INSTEAD. “Your Choice” was to perform intercourse. Hoag says 97% of hospitalizations for Covid are unvacinated, and potentially have spread death to others by their freedom to not vax. Now the abortionists rant that it’s their freedom to terminate a pregnancy. The moral construct of “Choice” is tinged with another outrageously polluted Laguna Beach political theatre act to push each agenda of killing humans.
Michele, I am glad to know you are not against vaccines. But here is the difference: if I decide I want a tattoo, cheek implants, a diamond installed on my forehead, or an abortion, that is purely my business because it doesn’t affect you. I have no right to insist that you have or don’t have any of these.
If I opt not to get a vaccine for an illness that is easily spread and still mutating throughout the world, that can very negatively affect you and everyone I come into contact with — unless I choose to stay home at all times, which isn’t very realistic.
These two things are completely different because of their potential impact on others.