Watch now: Abortion-rights supporters hold July 4th demonstration in downtown Tucson
Demonstrators gathered at the Evo A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse on 405 W. Congress St. on Monday, July 4 to protest Arizona’s response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Specifically, the state's decision to maintain restrictive abortion laws such as ARS-13-3603 and SB 1164. The two pieces of legislation have been at the center of the abortion controversy in Arizona, with legislators going back and forth on which piece of legislation could be enacted in the November election.
Petitioners were present at the protest, hoping to raise the 356,457 signatures needed to put a “right of reproductive freedom” in the Arizona Constitution that would bar local and state governments from interfering with the right to elective termination.
The protest started at the courthouse on the corner of West Congress Street and South Granada Ave., where speakers shared demands for reproductive freedom. Police were present at the protest, which lasted from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., with officers on bikes leading the crowd and police cars blocking traffic from the protestors' route.
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