Photos: NYC Rallies For Abortion Rights After Supreme Court Leak

NEW YORK CITY — Hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets Tuesday night to protest "sickening" news of the imminent overturn of Roe v. Wade, as seen in a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion.

“We will not go back to the days when we used wire hangers,” Attorney General Letitia James told the roaring crowd. “We women, we are the majority.”

The massive rally in Foley Square came on the heels of news — uncovered by Politico and confirmed by the court — that the U.S. Supreme Court voted to strike down the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion.

Among speakers was comedian Amy Schumer, who said that although the issue is no laughing matter, she found the court to be laughable.

“I tell jokes, but this court is the joke,” Schumer said. “John Roberts and his court are spitting in our faces.”

New Yorkers screamed, chanted “Our bodies, our choices,” held hands, wore green in solidarity, and let out primal screams.

One woman openly wept on a park bench nearby.

Protester Theresa Swink, 82, came to the protest Tuesday because she's been coming out to support abortion rights for decades and doesn't plan to stop.

"I've been doing this my whole life," Swink said. "I'm not surprised [at the decision], I'm f---ing angry."

With Swink was John Behling, who said he came out to support abortion rights because he believed them to be human rights.

"It's everyone's rights," Behling said. "It's about people, livelihood and it's freedom of choice."

Alisha, a New York City mom who declined to provide her last name, came to the rally with her young daughter, and both wore matching signs.

"My body my choice," the toddler's sign read. Said Alisha, "I just want to make sure she had the same rights I had."

A smaller, though still hundreds-strong, crowd gathered in the Barclays Center's shadow to protest.

They joined together in chants such as "My body, my choice" and "Roe can't go." And they held signs aloft under the arena's technicolor displays.

"Don't trust me with a choice but with a child?" one sign read.

"Abortion is health care - health care is a right," another read.

Among the crowd were Virginia Priest and Ron Lopez, who trekked from Kensington to stand up for a deeply personal issue.

"My grandmother had a friend who actually died from a botched abortion," Priest said.

Together, Priest and Lopez held signs of wire hangers — a symbol of the desperate measures women pre-Roe had take to absent legal, regulated abortion. The signs were designed by their 17-year-old daughter as part of her art school portfolio.

"This is a reminder of what frightened young girls might think is their only alternative," Priest said. "I'll tell you, my daughter is afraid."

"It could mean a different world for her health and rights," Lopez said of Roe's potential reversal. "We're turning the clock back 50 years."

But the relative lack of young people in the crowd troubled Felicia Stingone and Phil Rutherford, a Fort Greene couple.

Stingone said she marched and protested for reproductive rights, Planned Parenthood and a slew of related issues for years. Most crowds, like the one at Barclays Center, are a mix of really young and really old people, she said.

She hoped the draft opinion will change that.

"It's a major wake-up call to people who have been complacent," she said.

"People don't understand what they're losing," she said. "It almost feel like a luxury to be out here, but it's a necessity."

One demographic, however, did appear to be well-represented in the crowd: men.

"Allyship is critical — that's why he's here," Stingone said, putting her arm around Rutherford.

Priest likewise said she wanted her husband, Lopez, to come.

"We need allies," Priest said.

Action and education are also important, said Prospect Heights parents Linda Adamson and Akshay Arora.

The couple kept their two daughters, 4 and 6, on their shoulders as they stood in the crowd. Arora said they talked with their children in the most simple terms about what brought them there: choice.

"They understand choice, they understand freedom," he said.

For Adamson, she hoped her anger at the draft opinion was shared across the country and would lead to action.

"This is clearly a sign that Roe v. Wade is very close to being overturned," she said.

New York’s abortion rights likely will remain secure, as the opinion — if it holds after a final decision arrives this summer — puts the decision in state legislators’ hands.

While at least 26 are certain or likely to ban abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, New York politicians have vowed to protect it.

"New York will always be a place where abortion rights are protected and where abortion is safe and accessible," said Gov. Kathy Hochul.

"For anyone who needs access to care, our state will welcome you with open arms."