There are cases worth getting arrested for. Feminists have known this well since the days of the suffragettes, who created chaos to assert their rights and were regularly arrested and considered a public danger. Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other members of Congress, was arrested in the past few hours while demonstrating in support of the choice in front of the Supreme Court.. There are many photographs of the deputy accompanied by the police with her hands behind her back: she looks calm and belligerent, confident that she just did what she had to do.

How The keeper, Democratic politicians gathered in front of the United States Capitol along with other demonstrators and then marched to the Supreme Court, chanting “our bodies, our choice” and “we will not return” slogans. A sign of protest after the historic and dramatic decision of Republican majority judges to abolish the right to abortion at the federal level. Protests these days continue to follow each other so often that the court is surrounded by a large black fence, which is difficult to overcome and which was erected only to keep the demonstrators out. The group, which, in addition to the KLA, included progressive MPs Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Corey Bush, stopped at a pedestrian crossing..

The protesters sat down in the middle of the street in a sign of peaceful civil disobedience, stopping traffic. At that moment, a group of police officers gathered around them and broadcast a pre-recorded message about an imminent arrest for blocking the road. Like this 18 members of Congress arrested and handcuffed: seventeen women, Andy Levin of Michigan, the only man. The arrest was documented live, published by the social justice association CPD Action. “I am honored to represent a state where reproductive rights are respected and protected,” commented Carolyn Maloney, Democrat of New York, “the least I can do is put my body in danger for 33 million women who are at risk of losing their rights.” . “AOC has not made any statements, but we know how much she cares about this issue. “When I was about 22 or 23 years old, I was raped while living here in New York,” she said at a rally in support of choice. ., “but then I could still choose: the only thing I could think about, waiting for the result of a pregnancy test, alone in a public toilet, is that, thank God, I can still decide my fate.”