US Women’s March 2024: Huge rally in DC to back Harris, abortion rights
Al Jazeera
Thousands of women have rallied in Washington, DC, in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and reproductive rights.
The vice president has made abortion rights a central plank of her White House bid against Republican Donald Trump, who appeared to have publicly backed the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that took away the constitutional right to an abortion.
“Voting for the candidate that’s going to support our rights as women is the most important thing to me,” said Leah Brooker, 19, who travelled from North Carolina to join the event on Saturday, three days before Election Day.
The student said she had already cast her ballot in early voting, calling it “very empowering that my first vote was for a woman”.
She held a sign reading: “If boys will be boys, then women will be presidents.”
