Front cover of the New York Post on June 26, 2022.

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A man was charged with attempted murder of Los Angeles police officers Friday night amid protests of the Roe v. Wade reversal, cops said.

A woman was also charged with resisting police after four officers were injured following a barrage of projectiles, fireworks and a makeshift blow torch, according to officials.

The mayhem unfolded around 8:20 p.m. in Downtown Los Angeles, the LAPD said.

Michael Ortiz, 30, is accused of throwing a makeshift flame thrower at an officer, who was treated for burns, according to a Saturday press release.

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Singer Lizzo and events promoter giant Live Nation will combine forces to donate $1M to Planned Parenthood.

Lizzo shared she will pledge $500K from her upcoming "The Special Tour" to pro-choice organizations. She also added Live Nation will match her donation.

After a fan asked her to direct the money directly to abortion funds, the "Truth Hurts" singer announced she will send the proceeds to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Lizzo, who hails from Houston, is a staunch supporter of reproductive and transgender rights. The 34-year-old previously called out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's choice to call children's transgender medical operations as "child abuse."

"I'm proud to rep Houston, but I'm not proud to rep Texan politicians right now," Lizzo told a crowd at SXSW Film Festival in March. "They are taking away the right for young children to have a chance to live authentically as themselves. It's a violation of human rights."

Barbra Streisand put her own two cents regarding the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade on Friday.

The award-winning singer and actress called out the United States' high court, comparing them to the Taliban, an extreme Islamic group who have imposed strict rules on women in Afghanistan.

"The Court uses religious dogma to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. This Court is the American Taliban," Streisand posted on Twitter.

The "Meet the Fockers" star's comment comes after multiple states' "trigger laws" went into effect from the court's decision.

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of demonstrators marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, one of several protests across California decrying the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn abortion rights.

Marchers gathered near LA City Hall starting around 10 a.m. carrying signs that said, “my body, my choice” and “abort the court.” Police warned of traffic snarls after some protesters walked along a freeway off-ramp.

A concert and rally called “Rock for Abortion Rights” was scheduled for the afternoon outside a nearby US courthouse. A separate protest was also planned outside the Federal Building on the city’s west side.

Large demonstrations opposed to the overturning of Roe v. Wade were also expected Saturday in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and Fresno.

A Colorado Christian crisis center for pregnant women was vandalized and set on fire Saturday morning, a day after the US Supreme Court reversed federal protection of abortions.

Police responded to a fire at Life Choices in Longmont around 3:20 a.m., and found the building ablaze with covered with graffiti messages referencing the controversial reversal of Roe v. Wade, officials said.

“If abortions aren’t safe neither are you,” one message read, accompanied by the circled “A” anarchy symbol.

The saying has been written at dozens of pro-life centers since the court’s intent to overturn the 1973 ruling was leaked in May.

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Two people were arrested outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday, the day after the country’s highest court overturned Roe v. Wade, US Capitol Police tweeted Saturday evening. 

The two unidentified protesters were “accused of throwing paint over the fence” in the vicinity of the courthouse and arrested for destruction of property, the department said. Red paint was seen on one of the agitator's hands as she was taken into custody.

Protesters again took to the streets in cities across the US Saturday in the wake of the Court’s Friday ruling — and as many states eagerly anticipate their anti-abortion “trigger laws” taking effect.

At least 24 protesters were arrested in Manhattan earlier Saturday.  

Capitol Police said in a second tweet that the department and its partners provided cooling buses and staff to assist demonstrators with heat issues. Temperatures in the nation’s capital hovered near 90 Saturday. 

A Florida Disney employee ripped the company’s campaign to cover abortion travel costs for workers, telling The Post on Saturday it’ll be bad for business and would “alienate” customers.

Jose Castillo, who works in resort management in Orlando, accused the Walt Disney Co. of trying to influence politics after wading into the fraught abortion issue in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Disney was among the big American names to speak out after the landmark abortion case was struck down Friday, vowing in an internal memo that they would reimburse employees who have to travel out-of-state to have the procedure carried out.

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More than 300 people gathered in Union Square Park on Saturday to protest the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.

A day after the Supreme Court sparked protests nationwide by overturning a ruling that had protected women’s rights to abortion for nearly 50 years, demonstrators gathered near the farmer’s market to denounce the decision. Many wore green bandanas, a symbol for the pro-choice movement in Latin America, while some held signs saying “Overthrow Roe? HELL NO!”

“I’m terribly upset about what’s going on in our country. I have always been an activist, and I feel it’s not my country anymore,” said protester Carol Silverman, a 79-year-old retired psychotherapist. “I’m angry. I’m frustrated. I’m not very optimistic.”

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Protesters across the country returned to the streets Saturday for a second day of demonstrations after the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade — as states began to draw lines in the sand over the incendiary issue of abortion.

The governors of Minnesota and Washington announced new policies aimed to welcome out-of-state patients to their abortion clinics, while leaders of conservative bastions like Mississippi exulted in the court’s landmark decision as they counted down the days until their anti-abortion trigger laws kick in.

The broadening state-versus-state divide brought the long-simmering tensions over reproductive rights boiling up to the surface of American political life — 49 years after the Supreme Court declared abortion to be a constitutional right.

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For Gloria Steinem, activism begins at home.

The morning after the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade, the famed feminist told The Post that her contribution to the cause will include opening her Upper East Side apartment to women in need of abortions.

“Everything from the small effort to say, ‘I have a guest room if you need to come to New York state, you can stay here,’” she said of her initial efforts.

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Enraged pro-choice protesters vowed to descend on the homes of the six conservative Supreme Court justices on Saturday after posting their addresses online in the wake Roe v. Wade being overturned.

The pro-abortion group, Ruth Sent Us, started circulating the justices’ addresses in the hours after the high court struck down the landmark abortion case Friday and as violent protests broke out nationwide.

Dozens of protesters showed up outside Justice Clarence Thomas’ home overnight, chanting “no privacy for us, no peace for you!” and accusing his wife, Ginni, of being an “insurrectionist.”

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