‘Keep your filthy paws off my drawers’: Hundreds march the streets of Sydney in a show of solidarity after US state banned abortions
- Hundreds have rallied in support of reproductive rights in the US and at home
- ‘Abortion is healthcare’ and ‘Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers’ on signs
- Organiser Bella Ziade, 17, said wanted to a see change of abortion laws in NSW
Hundreds have rallied in Sydney in support of reproductive rights in the United States and at home.
Protesters brandished signs reading, ‘Abortion is healthcare’, ‘Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers’ and ‘Ovary-acting? I think not’ as they congregated at Hyde Park on Sunday.
Organiser Bella Ziade, a 17-year-old high school student, said she was motivated to march after hearing of new abortion restrictions in several states of the US.
She said she also wanted to a see a change of abortion laws in NSW which were ‘so limited’.
Hundreds have rallied in Sydney in support of reproductive rights in the United States and at home
‘It’s a fundamental right. It’s healthcare. It’s so important and that’s why we’re marching here today,’ she told AAP.
Sinead Canning, the campaign manager of the NSW Pro Choice Alliance, said the grouping of dozens of organisations was pushing for abortion law reform in the state this year.
‘We’ve been meeting with politicians for the past few months and we’ve been getting quite positive signs. We do think there will be a bill on the table by the end of this year,’ Ms Canning told AAP.
She said in NSW, abortion had been in the Crimes Act since its inception in 1900.
‘We want it completely removed from the Crimes Act. A woman should never be prosecuted for accessing a termination of pregnancy,’ she said.
Sinead Canning, the campaign manager of the NSW Pro Choice Alliance, said the grouping of dozens of organisations was pushing for abortion law reform in the state this year