A march against abortion rights that started outside of a Planned Parenthood in Boston and drew counter-protesters clad in clown gear ended Saturday with nine people arrested for disorderly conduct, according to a spokesperson for the Boston Police Department.

The police spokesperson did not say whether the people arrested were part of the “National Men’s March,” which billed itself as an event to “abolish abortion and rally for personhood,” or the “Clown March,” a counter-protest that said it wanted to “greet them with a joyful display of resistance.”

More details would be released when police supervisors finish writing reports of the arrests, the Boston police spokesperson told the Herald.

Photos from the scene show Boston police huddling over a person who they took into custody during the march.

A webpage for the “National Men’s March” said “the lie of abortion tells a mother that there is something good about turning her heart away from her child and to such a degree that she would desire even to kill her own child.”

“The lie of abortion tells her that her child is the problem and that she needs to kill her child to solve the problem,” the organization said.

Those behind the counter-protest said the “National Men’s March” is an out-of-state organization “that thinks men don’t have enough of a say in women’s reproductive autonomy, so they’ve organized a dreary, men-only funeral march to protest access to abortion.”

“The Men’s March is not welcome here, and we will not allow their narrative to go uncontested,” counter-protesters said.

Abortion is a flashpoint political topic in the United States.

Requests for long-term birth control and permanent sterilizations have surged across the nation since Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, according to The Associated Press.

Companies that sell emergency contraception and abortion pills say they’re seeing significant spikes in requests from people who are stockpiling the medications — one saw a 966% increase in sales of emergency contraception from the week before in the 60 hours after the election.

Although anti-abortion advocates are pressing Trump for more restrictions on abortion pills, it’s unclear what — if much — will be done regarding access to contraceptives of any kind during the second Trump administration.

Trump told a Pittsburgh television station in May that he was open to supporting regulations on contraception.

But after media reports on the interview, he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social that he “has never and will never” advocate for restricting birth control and other contraceptives.

Materials from the Associated Press were used in this report.

Members of the National Men’s March to abolish abortion and rally for personhood march in Boston Saturday. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Counter protesters and police clash as the protesters attempt to block the anti-abortion rights National Men’s March from continuing in Boston Saturday. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)