On the 13th of August, the “Yes on 4” referendum kickoff rally and and march were held at Orlando’s Lake Eola. Some speakers told personal stories about having had abortions they never, ever regretted. Chants of “Yes on 4” rocked the paviliion before the rally became a march.

At one point, the march appeared to stretch fully halfway around Lake Eola, with lead elements at the far side of the lake while trail element were still leaving the pavilion area. This was the largest protest I’ve ever seen at Lake Eola.

A few dozen Christian nationalists counterprotested for an extreme forced-birth agenda, most of the time separated by a line of bike cops. One of them was Keith Hanley, an infamous and violent forced-birth extremist known for harassing clinics. One clinic defender called him a Nazi. Several times he has come close to getting himself arrested for assault