One carried a white wire hanger with a sign reading, вЂњWe Will Not Go Back.вЂќ In Kentucky, where a вЂњtrigger lawвЂќ abruptly ended abortion access with the release of FridayвЂ™s ruling, a sidewalk rally in the 92-degree Louisville heat drew hundreds of people who sweated through more than an hour of speeches.

вЂњThese are more than baby steps to something. Natalie Huckabay, 19, a Little Rock native who attends college in Tennessee, said she had registered to vote in response to the decision, which she called вЂњterrifying.вЂќ In Little Rock, Ark., crowds chanting вЂњmy body, my choiceвЂќ shouted down men who were loudly reading Bible verses at the edge of a peaceful protest. Allred said, her last few words drowned out by cheers from the crowd. вЂњIt did teach me a lesson: Abortion must be safe and legal and affordable,вЂќ Ms. She said she had an illegal abortion in Los Angeles in the 1960s that landed her in the hospital where a nurse told her she hoped she had learned her lesson, presumably about not seeking abortions. The famed womenвЂ™s rights attorney Gloria Allred addressed the crowd, standing in front of a display of metallic hangers. Commuters honked at the placards: вЂњEnd the Patriarchy.вЂќ вЂњAbort the Court.вЂќ вЂњAbortion Is Healthcare.вЂќ Rally leaders read the names of women who had died from illegal abortions and lifted black-and-white photographs of them into the air. A man standing on a seat of the slow-moving vehicle held a bright green sign: вЂњOverturn Roe? Hell no.вЂќ A rainbow convertible brought up the rear of the march. In Los Angeles, a crowd outside the downtown federal courthouse gathered at noon and grew by rush hour into a sea of hundreds, weaving past high-rises and stopping traffic. In New York City, crowds flooded Union Square and Washington Square Park. In Washington State, some 500 abortion rights demonstrators occupied a city block in Seattle, disrupting traffic, and in Oregon, another 1,500 converged on downtown Portland. In Philadelphia, a throng outside City Hall spilled into a nearby plaza of municipal buildings, then grew to a river of thousands flowing onto John F. rally outside TallahasseeвЂ™s Historic Capitol swelled in a half-hour to several hundred people expressing their outrage at the ruling. In Tennessee, couples with babies, college students, mothers and daughters headed to NashvilleвЂ™s public square with signs after the electricity was disconnected at the site of their planned protest, an organizer, Julie Edwards, said. In Massachusetts, crowds denouncing the court marched in a Boston heat wave, drawing applause from outdoor diners at Boylston Street restaurants. вЂњI immediately went to Walgreens to make a sign about this.вЂќ Varga said her first response to the news of the ruling was to call her mother. Carrying a sign that read вЂњSeriously, My Mom Already Marched For This,вЂќ Ms. Victoria Varga, a 28-year-old logistics worker, drove to downtown Chicago, joining a crowd of some 3,000 marchers with her fiancГ©, Rob Fishman, a 30-year-old sales professional. Still, many who took to the streets said the ruling had left them initially stunned as they realized the sweeping change that is about to overtake much of the nation. Wade before the Friday ruling, a sentiment that intensified after a draft of the opinion leaked in May. Roughly eight Americans in 10 support abortion rights and opposed the reversal of Roe v.

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