Mississippians Rally for Abortion Rights to #StopTheBans

Around 200 Mississippi residents gathered outside the Mississippi State Capitol Building on May 21, 2019, to demonstrate their support for abortion rights. Two months earlier, the Legislature passed and Gov. Phil Bryant signed an anti-abortion law that bans all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is typically around six weeks gestation. Other states legislatures have passed similar laws in recent months, too, with abortion opponents hoping to trigger a Supreme Court case that could overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that declared abortion a constitutionally protected right. At the rally in Jackson, women who remember life before legal abortion was easily accessible spoke out, recalling their experiences, and sharing both their fears and their hopes for the future of women’s rights.

Jackson residents Erin Shirley Orey, Erma Johnson, Pahedadra Robinson and Cheryl Turner joined hundreds of ...

At age 95, Doreene McCoy, seated in a wheelchair, arrived at the Mississippi State Capitol ...

Mississippi State Rep. Alyce Clarke, D-Jackson, speaks to a rally attendee. She joined abortion rights ...

Derenda Hancock leads a group of "clinic escorts" at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the ...

Planned Parenthood Southeast Director Felicia Brown Williams spoke out alongside other abortion rights activists outside ...

Outside the Mississippi State Capitol, Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance activist Patricia Ice told the story ...

Former state Sen. Gloria Williamson of Philadelphia, Miss., shared a story about a failed pregnancy ...

Anti-abortion activist Coleman Boyd crashed an abortion rights demonstration at the Mississippi State Capitol on ...

Doreene McCoy, 95, and her daughter, Joedda Gore, 75, joined a protest against state bans ...

Abby Williams, 24, and Cameron Baker, 26, showed up to support abortion rights in a ...

Dozens of men joined women in a demonstration in support of abortion rights outside the ...

Men and women held "Stand With Black Women" signs at a rally in support of ...

Dozens of men joined women in a demonstration in support of abortion rights outside the ...

Yazoo City-resident Mindy Brown joined abortion rights demonstrators outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May ...

Derenda Hancock, who leads the group of "clinic escorts" who help patients avoid protesters as ...

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Mississippians Rally for Abortion Rights to #StopTheBans

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