Activists marched to the U.S. Embassy in Dublin on Sunday in a show of support for abortion rights. 

Kate Foley, 33, an American who has been living in Ireland for 10 years, was among those activists who marched a mile and a half across the Irish capital to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Foley, who attended the protest with a group of American expat friends, said she was inspired to see the diversity of people who participated in the protest. 

“We were so surprised to see the numbers of Irish and international people [who came] out to support what many could dismiss as an American issue,” Foley said about the protest, which was organized by ROSA Ireland. 

Despite living abroad for a decade, Foley said she still has strong connections to her home country and is scared for her loved ones in the U.S. after the court’s overturning of the 1973 ruling on Friday. 

“If such an established law of nearly 50 years can be changed, what’s to say our elected officials can’t do the same — on abortion, or any other human rights issue,” Foley told NBC News via Instagram direct message. “I’ve always been taught to stand up for my beliefs, and I think it’s my responsibility to exercise that right regardless of whether I’m at home or abroad.”

Ireland voted in 2018 to remove a ban on abortion from its constitution. The procedure is now permitted until the 12th week of pregnancy, when the health of the mother is at risk or when the fetus has a congenital defect. 

Pride marches across the United States took on new gravity Sunday as progressives worried that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court who voted to reverse Roe v. Wade could now overrule protections for other rights, including same-sex marriage and same-sex intimacy.

The annual parades and rallies in major cities such as New York and San Francisco came two days after Justice Clarence Thomas, in a concurring opinion to the court’s ruling that tossed out Roe, called on the court to revisit the landmark decisions that established those very rights.

Sunday’s events also took place as the LGBTQ movement reels from recent legislative setbacks, including laws that curb classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity. Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, for example, turned into a national flashpoint.

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Fifty-nine percent of Americans and 67% of women in the U.S disapprove of the Supreme Court’s precedent-shattering decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new poll released Sunday by CBS News.

The poll found that 41% of Americans and 33% of women in the U.S approved of the ruling.

Approval levels were divided largely along political lines. Among Democrats, 17% said they approved, while 83% said they disapproved. Among Republicans, 78% said they approved, while 22% said they disapproved. In a sign that the decision could spell trouble for Republican candidates in the midterm elections this fall, 38% of independents said they approved, while 62 percent said they disapproved.

Half of Democrats polled said the decision would make them more likely to vote this fall, while 28 percent of independents said it would. Twenty percent of Republicans said the decision would make them more likely to vote this fall.

More than half (52%) of respondents said the decision marked a step backward for the nation, while 31% said it marked a step forward. Another 17% said it did neither.

Fifty-six percent of respondents said the decision would make the lives of women worse, 16% said it would make the lives of women better and 28% said it would not make a difference.

WASHINGTON — Advocates for transgender rights fear the overturn of Roe v. Wade will trigger the loss of civil rights safeguards for their community.

Jude Barnhart, an 18-year-old from Maryland who identifies as transgender and nonbinary, reminded fellow protesters outside the Supreme Court on Sunday that Justice Clarence Thomas has already said rights to marriage equality, contraception and same-sex intimacy should be revisited.

“I was talking to my girlfriend, like, ‘What if we can’t get married?’" said Barnhart. "They’re not going to stop regulating our bodies. They are going to regulate who’s in our beds. They are going to regulate who we marry. They are going to regulate what we can put in our body to prevent ourselves from getting pregnant.”

The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah filed a lawsuit in District Court Saturday seeking to block the state’s trigger law criminalizing abortion in the state.

The suit requests a temporary restraining order on Utah’s trigger law, which was passed by the state Legislature in 2020 and criminalizes abortion at any point in pregnancy. The ban took effect late Friday.

Planned Parenthood argues that the right to an abortion is permitted under the state’s constitution.

More than 50 patients had abortion appointments scheduled at Planned Parenthood for the coming week, the suit says. Doctors who violate the ban could face up to 15 years in prison, fines and the loss of their professional licenses. 

According to an NBC News analysis, people seeking abortion services in Utah’s biggest cities must now drive an average of five hours to reach the nearest clinic. 

Utah is one of nine states whose so-called trigger laws nearly immediately criminalized abortion Friday, following the Supreme Court decision overturning nearly 50 years of precedent. 

“In one terrible moment, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and Utahns’ power to control their own bodies, lives, and personal medical decisions was threatened,” Karrie Galloway, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, said in a statement. 

New York City’s Pride parade recalls the marches and riots in which activists fought for gay rights decades ago, echoing some of the protests the country has seen in recent days, but Sunday’s event focused on a celebration of identities and rights gained so far.

Planned Parenthood helped lead the parade, and many waved flags or held signs in support of reproductive rights, but many remarked that the energy of the crowd remained light, hopeful and joyous rather than angry.

Sunny Zalewski, 20, said she drove two and a half hours from Connecticut with a friend to find an extremely supportive crowd.

“It’s really nice to see how many people can agree on one thing, and I haven’t seen any disagreements or violence except one guy yelling about traffic, but that’s New York for you, like, nothing new there,” she said.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Sunday reiterated calls to expand the size of the Supreme Court and end the Senate filibuster, saying that doing both would allow for the restoration of abortion rights for women across the country.

“We need to help the women who are pregnant right now,” Warren said on ABC’s “This Week.” That means Democrats must be “focused like a laser on the election in November” so they can pick up seats in states with competitive races, like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where there's candidates “who are willing to protect access to abortion and get rid of the filibuster so we can pass it.”

“John Fetterman, I’m looking at you in Pennsylvania, Mandela Barnes, I’m looking at you in Wisconsin,” Warren said. “We bring them in, then we got the votes, and we can protect every woman no matter where she lives.”

Warren also slammed the Supreme Court’s conservative majority for having "lost legitimacy."

"They have burned whatever legitimacy they still may have,” she said. “They just took the last of it and set a torch to it with the Roe v. Wade opinion. I believe we need to get some confidence back in our court and that means we need more justices on the United States Supreme Court.”

The overturn of Roe v. Wade struck at the heart of American democracy and raised questions about the high court's legitimacy, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday.

"But also what I believe that the president and the Democratic Party needs to come to terms with is that this is not just a crisis of Roe, this is a crisis of our democracy," she told NBC's "Meet The Press." "The Supreme Court has dramatically overreached its authority."

The New York Democratic lawmaker cited comments from Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who provided critical votes in the confirmation of justices who proved instrumental in the overturn of Roe, as evidence of what she called the Supreme Court's "crisis of legitimacy."

"We had two conservative senators in the United States Senate, Sen. Manchin and Sen. Collins, come out with a very explosive allegation that these — that several Supreme Court justices misled them ... during their confirmation hearings and in the lead-up to their confirmation. This is a crisis of legitimacy," Ocasio-Cortez said.

"If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the highest court of the land and then issue, without basis — if you read these opinions, issue without basis rulings that deeply undermine the human and civil rights of the majority of Americans, we must see that through," said Ocasio-Cortez. "There must be consequences for such a deeply destabilizing action and a hostile takeover of our democratic institutions."

Gov. Kristi Noem, whose state was among several where a "trigger" law was set to take effect after Roe v. Wade was struck down by the Supreme Court, said Sunday that South Dakota would also enforce its ban on telemedicine abortions, putting the state on a legal warpath with the federal government.

Medications that can induce an abortion in pregnant people — so-called abortion pills — are available to many via telehealth and telemedicine appointments. The medications are federally approved and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday that “states may not ban” the drug, mifepristone, which is one of the drugs used in medication abortion, “based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy.”

That is likely to set off a legal battle in states like South Dakota, where trigger laws barred abortion outright and where separate laws are in place applying to telemedicine and telehealth. 

In an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Noem, a Republican, was asked how state officials would “stop women from receiving this federally approved medication” and whether officials were “going to actually seize mail.”

Noem responded by referring to the state's bill that bans “telemedicine abortions,” adding that such measures “should be under the supervision of a medical doctor” and that decisions to make such measures legal “are at the state level.”

She also said she would not support creating exceptions in her state’s law for women who become pregnant through rape or incest (the law does not currently include such exceptions). “Having a tragedy or tragic situation happen to someone isn't a reason to have another tragedy occur,” she said.

Noem indicated the state had no current plan to draft legislation that helps women who are now forced to carry their pregnancies to term.

Asked “What exactly are you doing to keep [women] alive during their pregnancy,” Noem replied, “That will be a lot of the debate that will go on now in every different state.”