A minimum of 17 Democratic individuals of the United States Congress had been arrested at an abortion rights protest in Washington DC.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar had been amongst the ones detained close to the Perfect Courtroom.

They had been observed chanting “fingers off our our bodies” and blockading a side road ahead of being led away via police.

The protest follows a Perfect Courtroom ruling which ended the national proper to abortion.