Pro-Abortion Rights Demonstrators to Counter Anti-Abortionists Rally

Demonstrators representing the majority of Americans who support the right to abortion will counter a planned anti-abortion rally with a speak-out for reproductive rights at 11 AM, Tuesday, March 21st adjacent to the northeast corner of the State Capitol grounds, E. Monroe Street and S. 2nd Street.

"Illinois is a relative beacon for reproductive rights, honoring abortion rights, early childhood education, LGBTQ rights, voting and other basic rights far more than the states around us," said Ali Cassity of Chicago For Abortion Rights (CFAR). "The anti-abortionists hate that. They want to shut down abortion rights in Illinois and hence throughout the Midwest by busing in anti-abortion zealots from around the region to our state capital."

"This should be of concern not only to people who might need an abortion someday – as nearly a quarter of American women have – but to everyone. By stuffing the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues they have shown their contempt for democracy and the bodily autonomy of the abortion rights majority."