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STORY: ::November 2, 2024::Thousands rally for women's rights and urge US voters to turn out for the presidential election::Washington, D.C.[Lina Anderson, Rally participant from New York City]"I'm a 77-year-old woman, I remember when women were crying and carrying on with coat hangers and other kinds of means to save their lives. I remember when women were crying out for support and medical care because they needed to have their husbands involved in their lives and they had no choice, they had to go along with whatever men wanted. So here we are today, standing up for democracy, standing up for the right to choose, standing up for all the women who come before us and behind us."[Name given only as Alex, Rally participant]"I'm going to be 65 in January and I can't believe we're at this point again. And that people have become so cruel and vile and unkind. And this country is really, it's a bunch of puritanical BS that we're based on, right? Because why does anybody need to know who's sleeping with whom anyway?"::Rachel O’Leary Carmona, Women's March Executive Director"More than ever in 2024, we are voting on freedom or fascism, and there's really no middle ground. And so this is you know, it's a fight for our life. It's a fight for our future, our freedom, our family and everything that we love is on the line. So it is critical that we all turn out, we all vote."Women from different cities traveled to the U.S. capital to rally in favour of legal abortion on the final weekend before Tuesday's (November 5) election. Many carried signs supporting Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and chanted "we're not going back", as they marched towards the White House.Seventy-seven-year-old Lina Anderson, who came from New York City, said she remembers the days when women had no choice of support or medical care without their husbands' involvement. "So here we are today, standing up for democracy, standing up for the right to choose, standing up for all the women who come before us and behind us," she said.While another attendee, who gave her name only as Alex, said, "I'm going to be 65 in January and I can't believe we're at this point again. And that people have become so cruel and vile and unkind." O’Leary Carmona told Reuters organisers were expecting 5,000 attendees, but said closer to double that number showed up at Freedom Plaza, a block away from the White House.Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump has taken credit for appointing the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, ending a nearly 50-year federal right to abortion in 2022.The reversal of Roe v. Wade allowed the matter of abortion to be decided state-by-state, and Republicans responded by enacting restrictive laws in nearly two dozen states.Trump's Democratic opponent and current Vice President Harris has made abortion one of the main campaign promises in her bid to reach the White House.