Abortion supporters rallied by the thousands on Sunday to demand protection for rights to abortion and mark the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v Wade US Supreme Court decision allowing the procedure.
Organisers said they were focusing on states after the Supreme Court's reversal of the verdict in June brought in abortion restrictions and near-total bans in more than a dozen states.
“We are going to where the fight is and that is at the state level,” reads the website for the Women's March.
The group has called this year's rallies “Bigger than Roe”.
The main march occurred in Madison, Wisconsin, where coming state Supreme Court elections could determine the balance of power and future of abortion rights in the state.
Abortions are banned in Wisconsin due to legal uncertainties faced by clinics.
Tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists descended on the National Mall in Washington on Friday to call for a nationwide ban on abortion.
The 50th annual March for Life event was the first to be held since the Supreme Court upended five decades of precedent and overturned Roe v Wade, which protected the right to abortion.
The court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson now leaves it up to states to decide whether or not women will have the right to the procedure.
Other large marches took place in New York, Washington and Los Angeles.
The Women’s March has become a regular event with millions turning out in the US and around the world the day after the January 2017 inauguration of then president Donald Trump.
Mr Trump made appointing conservative judges a mission of his presidency.
The three conservative justices he appointed to the US Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — all voted to overturn Roe v Wade.
Mr Kavanaugh and Ms Barrett said that they would protect the law in confirmations hearings.
AP contributed to this report
The language of diplomacy in 1853
Treaty of Peace in Perpetuity Agreed Upon by the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast on Behalf of Themselves, Their Heirs and Successors Under the Mediation of the Resident of the Persian Gulf, 1853
(This treaty gave the region the name “Trucial States”.)
We, whose seals are hereunto affixed, Sheikh Sultan bin Suggar, Chief of Rassool-Kheimah, Sheikh Saeed bin Tahnoon, Chief of Aboo Dhebbee, Sheikh Saeed bin Buyte, Chief of Debay, Sheikh Hamid bin Rashed, Chief of Ejman, Sheikh Abdoola bin Rashed, Chief of Umm-ool-Keiweyn, having experienced for a series of years the benefits and advantages resulting from a maritime truce contracted amongst ourselves under the mediation of the Resident in the Persian Gulf and renewed from time to time up to the present period, and being fully impressed, therefore, with a sense of evil consequence formerly arising, from the prosecution of our feuds at sea, whereby our subjects and dependants were prevented from carrying on the pearl fishery in security, and were exposed to interruption and molestation when passing on their lawful occasions, accordingly, we, as aforesaid have determined, for ourselves, our heirs and successors, to conclude together a lasting and inviolable peace from this time forth in perpetuity.
Taken from Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1925-1939: the Imperial Oasis, by Clive Leatherdale
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