Cynthia Nixon slipped by in a striped green dress a woman propped fuchsia card stock against a tree and scribbled “Bans Off My Body” in pen. “I donated to some southeastern states this morning,” I overheard a demonstrator tell her friend matter-of-factly. There was a man in a pink pussy hat, looking fresh out of 2017. A girl with green hair held a loud Pomeranian and a painted “Ruth Sent Us” sign, while a mother wore a “Her Body, Her Choice” sign with an arrow pointing to her toddler, who was busy eating a purple lollipop. Among the “Abortions Save Lives” signs, small children had “My Body, My Choice” signage tacked to their strollers poodles wore green Supreme sweaters there were wafts of weed and men sitting in trees. Yet at Tuesday’s protest, it was hard not to feel hopeful. It’s an outcome reproductive-rights advocates have feared for years. At 5 p.m., demonstrators in abortion-rights green trickled into the square to protest the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that revealed the justices have privately voted to overturn Roe v. Although the thousands of protesters who showed up at Foley Square on Tuesday evening had presumably spent much of the day doom-scrolling, the mood was oddly jubilant.
