On April 5, 1992, several hundred thousand people, mostly women, marched to the Mall in Washington, D.C., in support of abortion rights. At the time, the rally was one of the largest protest marches ever staged in the nation’s capital. Most of the marchers wore white, a color that was favored by suffragists and their successors in the women’s rights movement before they gained the right to vote.

When the march was organized, the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to consider the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that limited access to abortions. Abortion rights advocates feared the court’s conservative majority might overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which had legalized abortion. Read more at Politico>>

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