{"id":6535,"date":"2022-01-28T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:50:59","slug":"pro-life-marchers-swarm-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6535","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life Marchers Swarm DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Devon Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a new semester for Roanoke College, and for this Maroon, I\u2019m spending my time in the nation&#8217;s Capital, Washington DC. During my first full weekend in DC, people participated in pro-life rallies that took over the metros and streets. One of my roommates poorly timed a run through the National Mall and found herself caught up in the march by accident. These protests come at the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, protecting a woman\u2019s right to choose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later this year, the Supreme Court is supposed to make decisions on cases challenging Roe v. Wade, including Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization. This case came from a Mississippi law banning most abortions past 15-weeks. The Courts heard oral arguments in December and will decide later this year. Participants of the pro-life march braved the s20-degree temperatures to show their disdain that women, who are not themselves, are choosing to make the best decision for their bodies and life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching the March for Life take place in DC left a bad taste in my mouth. Not necessarily because folks were exercising their First Amendment right to peacefully assemble, but because of the way they came to other people\u2019s homes and completely disregarded local mandates on masking. I find it a tad ironic that they were marching for \u201clife\u201d, while not even trying to wear a mask on public transportation or indoors, which is illegal. They gathered in large groups, endangering the people around them because they would not wear masks. I won\u2019t say whether I\u2019m pro-choice or pro-life (although I think you can guess), but I will say there is a way to respectfully assemble without endangering those around you. So, keep this DC tip in mind- if you\u2019re coming to DC for any reason, remember to mask up and follow local mandates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Devon Mitchell It\u2019s a new semester for Roanoke College, and for this Maroon, I\u2019m spending my time in the nation&#8217;s Capital, Washington DC. During my first full weekend in DC, people participated in pro-life rallies that took over the metros and streets. One of my roommates poorly timed a run through the National Mall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}