Within 45 days of the early‑September 2021 recording (i.e., by about October 19, 2021), the main nationwide protest against Texas SB8 was the October 2, 2021 “Rally for Abortion Justice” / 2021 Women’s March, organized in direct response to the Texas Heartbeat Act and held in 600+ locations across all 50 states. Contemporary reports and later summaries describe total turnout as “tens of thousands” or “more than 100,000” nationwide, with organizers’ own numbers in the ~120,000–250,000 range—well below anything that could reasonably be called a roughly one‑million‑person march. No credible source reports a million‑person (or near‑million) U.S. march over SB8 in that period, so Friedberg’s prediction did not come true.