New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Saturday, May 14, that municipal buildings, including Bronx Borough Hall, will be lit green in support of abortion rights on Saturday night. Earlier on Saturday, the mayor, elected leaders, reproductive rights organizations, community leaders and activists, and thousands of New Yorkers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, calling for safe, legal access to abortion across the nation during the “Bans Off Our Bodies” march.

 

“Abortion is health care and health care is a human right,” said Adams. “New York City stands with everyone fighting to protect reproductive rights and against anti-choice extremists trying to strip away 50 years of precedent. While New York will never block access to an abortion, now is the time for us to make clear, with one voice, that we will not allow the nation to move backwards. We are the majority: The majority of this City, this State, and this country that supports reproductive rights, and we will fight like hell to hold onto to those rights.”

 

I stand in strong support of the millions of individuals peacefully protesting in support of reproductive rights across the country today. The right to choose is a personal decision and a fundamental right. We must stand up to defend bodily autonomy & freedom of choice.

— Rep. Ritchie Torres (@RepRitchie) May 14, 2022

 

Meanwhile, Congressman Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) who, prior to the latest redistricting process approved in February 2022, used to represent Norwood, also lent his support to the march, saying, “Let me be clear – As a man, I don’t have the right to tell women what to do with their bodies. As an elected official, my fight is to ensure they have a choice. #BanOffOurBodies”

 

Let me be clear— As a man, I don’t have a right to tell women what to do with their bodies.

As an elected official, my fight is to ensure they have a choice! #BansOffOurBodies pic.twitter.com/TuEZh2UNiO

— Adriano Espaillat (@RepEspaillat) May 14, 2022