{"id":1462914,"date":"2022-05-03T22:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462914"},"modified":"2022-05-03T22:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:59:39","slug":"i-went-to-the-protests-at-the-supreme-court-the-viciousness-was-palpable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-went-to-the-protests-at-the-supreme-court-the-viciousness-was-palpable\/","title":{"rendered":"I Went To The Protests At The Supreme Court. The Viciousness Was Palpable."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-went-to-the-protests-at-the-supreme-court-the-viciousness-was-palpable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462914&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/776A512C-40C1-469C-B564-B1822FDD5A7F-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 I could hear the massive crowds chanting and screaming as I walked\u00a0up Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court. Strident chants of \u201cmy body, my choice\u201d and \u201cabortion is healthcare\u201d rang out into the beautiful spring evening.<\/p>\n<p>Curious joggers paused to wander through the masses. Capitol Hill residents gingerly threaded their dogs through the crowd. Parents guided their children closer to get a better look.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion protests are not uncommon in Washington, D.C. Almost every year since the monumental 1973 abortion decision <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, hundreds of thousands of pro-life activists gather annually to march against abortion, and in recent years, the Women\u2019s March has gathered supporters to protest against former President Donald Trump and increasingly pro-life legislation.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight was different. A Monday evening report from POLITICO revealed that <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is most likely about to be overturned, and the anger and desperation from pro-abortion rights activists was palpable.<\/p>\n<p>The police were ready \u2014 they had sectioned off the crowds with fencing and were standing watch on the Supreme Court steps. Roads around the court were carefully blocked off. Officers patrolled the streets and crowds. Police dogs sniffed about the premises.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd seemed to be almost entirely made up of pro-abortion protesters. The only pro-life group that I encountered was the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU). I bumped into them as I briefly left the crowd to grab a sandwich, and they urged me to follow them, promising me that they were going to make a statement.<\/p>\n<p>When I found them later, they were doing just that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbortion is murder,\u201d the small knot of PAAU members<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>chanted into megaphones, completely surrounded by pro-abortion rights protesters screaming curse words at them.<\/p>\n<p>I pushed my way through the crowd until I could see and film what was going on. One girl dressed in denim while sporting both a mask and sunglasses flung water at the PAAU members. It splashed a man next to me, who looked annoyed and surprised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF*** you, f*** you!\u201d screamed another masked woman, waving her middle finger at the pro-life activists.\u00a0Two lanky young men followed her example, aggressively thrusting middle fingers toward the PAAU members and screaming, \u201cF*** you, f*** you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their eyes were wild with rage, and for a moment I wondered if they would assault the PAAU members. It seemed surreal to see these very typical-looking Washington, D.C., men behaving in such a manner in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>A larger woman dressed in a green skirt and shirt next to me began exhorting them through her megaphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what they want,\u201d she yelled, before leading the crowd in chanting, \u201cMy body, my choice\u201d repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>The tension around us increased. Amid the angry noise,\u00a0I surveyed the teeming horde of pro-abortion rights protesters, \u00a0filming them to capture their hostile passion.<\/p>\n<p>One young woman in a red crop top was chanting, her eyes half closed as if in a trance, \u201cI will not be subjugated! I will not be subjugated!\u201d Her face and body were covered in paint and hand prints.<\/p>\n<p>Then the woman in the green outfit began pressing her megaphone over the head of a PAAU activist, and cruelly blared the siren into the activist\u2019s ears. Other PAAU protestors attempted to shield their friend.<\/p>\n<p>Another pro-abortion rights protester dumped water on the PAAU activist, and a scuffle broke out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF*** you, f*** you!\u201d someone shouted over my head as the activists grappled with one another.\u00a0\u201cF***ing b****!\u201d someone else shouted.<\/p>\n<p>The PAAU activists were huddled together as the woman in the green outfit continued to shove her megaphone in their faces. The painted girl continued her half-chant, half-scream,\u00a0\u201cI will not be subjugated!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was being jostled and shoved, but there was nowhere to go, and I tried to continue filming the scuffle. The denim-garbed girl behind me grabbed and shoved me, but I did not get out of the way and she drew back.<\/p>\n<p>My video footage of the tense moment shows the small groups of pro-lifers in the middle of the scrum, surrounded and shoved around by enraged protesters.<\/p>\n<p>I later learned that a PAAU activist named Herb emerged with a bloody shirt, but he and his fellow pro-life demonstrators didn\u2019t know whose blood it was and everyone was okay.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person fell on the ground near me, but then they got up. The pro-abortion rights protesters were aggressively trying to push the pro-life supporters out of the area and through a hedge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo, go go!\u201d someone near me shouted. \u201cMove, or you\u2019ll get f***ing trampled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One young man appears in the video wearing a black hood, black pants, black gloves, a black mask, and wearing a black backpack. I hadn\u2019t seen him yet, and he had a friend with him dressed similarly. I wondered if they were Antifa-related before they disappeared into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet out of here!\u201d someone screamed above the noise as most of the pro-lifers fled through the bushes and onto the Supreme Court lawn, where police escorted them to safety. I could see PAAU activist Terrisa Bukonovic\u2019s face, and she looked shaken.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone left, however \u2014 one pro-life activist who remained to face the seething crowd quickly became the focal point of the photographers and videographers. I later learned his name is A.J. Hurley and he is the\u00a0director of a group called Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy body, my choice!\u201d they screamed at him. \u201cNo justice, no peace,\u201d they continued to chant, as the painted girl repeated over and over, \u201cI will not be subjugated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhose streets?\u201d asked a woman with a megaphone. \u201cOur streets!\u201d the protestors responded.<\/p>\n<p>The megaphone sirens continued to wail above the crowd as they moved in closer toward Hurley, who proclaimed his faith in God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in your Jesus. Your Jesus isn\u2019t real. F*** your Jesus, f*** your Jesus,\u201d screamed the woman in green with the megaphone. \u201cChrist is not here, baby, I\u2019m right here, and right here today, I can get an abortion. I can get an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cPack it up,\u201d she told him repeatedly. \u201cYou are actively trying to take away my rights as a woman. You do not have the right to say what I can do with my body. That\u2019s not your choice. We do not believe in the same thing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I backed up to get a better view. The painted girl moved closer to Hurley, shouting into his face. The whole section of the crowd on the right side of the court was chanting, at least from what I could see and hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s your God now?\u201d jeered a man close to my shoulder. I turned and stared at him, shocked by his malicious tone. He did not meet my gaze.<\/p>\n<p>I could feel the situation escalating again, and anxious to put an end to it, I moved closer to Hurley and asked if we could chat farther away from the crowd. He agreed and slowly followed me away from the angry mass, which celebrated his departure.<\/p>\n<p>I looked behind us as we went, unsure if the abortion activists or the police would follow us. No one did, and I interviewed Hurley on the sidewalk about why he had chosen to confront the angry, mob-like crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to be a voice for the voiceless,\u201d he told me. \u201cWe just were in the belly of the beast trying to be a voice and a group of thousands of people who don\u2019t care about life; they have not concern with life; they have no love in their hearts \u2026 it\u2019s unbelievable that a bunch of people like this could gather out here for the right to dismember and disembowel their children in the womb. It\u2019s disgusting and it\u2019s despicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Hurley said he was trying to tell the protesters that he was once just like them and that God loves them more than \u201cthey hate themselves and the shame that they feel inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease,\u201d he pleaded. \u201cThe time for comfort and safety is over. We have to put ourselves between them and let\u2019s end this horrible tragedy once and for all in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the majority of the crowd was unaware of what was going on. As I left, the chanting was still going on, and the old abortion rallying cries rang out into the spring evening.<\/p>\n<p>A mother with her little toddlers walked by and overheard a woman shout a curse word at Hurley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was not kind,\u201d she said anxiously, probably for her child\u2019s benefit. Our eyes met. \u201cNo, it wasn\u2019t,\u201d I said ruefully. 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