WATCH: Senator's 'Sadness, Outrage' At SCOTUS Leads To Weekend Rally
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CARLE PLACE, NY — Tensions are growing amid the leak of the US Supreme Court's draft decision that would shatter the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.
State Senator Anna Kaplan (D-Carle Place), who was a guest on a special edition of "Patch AM," said, even though it was not unexpected, she was still shocked.
The lawmaker felt a "deep sadness and outrage," Kaplan said.
She expects that outrage being expressed across the country will not impact the justices' final decision on overturning the court's 1973 monumental reproductive rights conclusion.
Kaplan is leading a "We're Not Going Back" rally for Saturday at the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola.
It's being coordinated with Planned Parenthood and several of her Democratic partners in the Senate and Assembly.
"I do hope that my Republican colleagues, who always said this was the law of the land, will also show up," she said.
Kaplan worries that more dramatic reversals could be on the way from the Supreme Court.
"I believe we are in a very difficult time in our history in this country," Kaplan said. "It seems that all the progress that we'd made, there is an effort to take it away and push us backward."
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