Crowds gather outside Supreme Court for Texas abortion arguments - The Dallas Morning News

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WASHINGTON — As lawyers, justices and aides held oral arguments on two Texas abortion cases inside the Supreme Court Monday morning, hundreds of abortion rights opponents and reproductive rights advocates rallied outside with signs, chants and presentations to show their support for both sides of the debate.

“Today is really about patients and providers having their day in court,” Erica Sackin, senior director of communications at Planned Parenthood, said Monday outside the Court. “[Senate Bill] 8 has been in effect for two months, and during that time, thousands of people have had to travel hundreds of miles across state lines just to abortion — and that’s if they can at all.”

Texas’ new restrictive abortion law, Senate Bill 8, has been met with two primary legal challenges since it went into effect on Sept. 1: one from a group of Texas abortion clinics and providers, and the other from the Biden administration’s Department of Justice.

Planned Parenthood, which has filed briefs with the Supreme Court filled with anonymous testimony from Texas women who have been impacted by the new law, was coordinating a lot of the pro-abortion demonstrations.

“SB 8 is blatantly unconstitutional, and we are here asking the Supreme Court to step in because it is a violation of our constitutional rights,” Sackin said.

MJ Flores, an advocate with the organization We Testify — a pro-abortion advocacy group dedicated to representing people who have abortions — spoke outside the court Monday to share her experience obtaining an abortion after an unintended pregnancy.

“I am so deeply disgusted by my home state’s SB 8 law, which nearly bans all abortions [with] a $10,000 bounty,” Flores, a Texan, said. “And I am scared for Texans back at home in my home state who have to live under SB 8.”

A sea of hundreds gathered outside the high court before, during and after arguments. Demonstrators from a number of anti-abortion groups were in attendance as well, including the Purple Sash Revolution, Students for Life Action and the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.

Rev. Patrick Mahoney, chief strategy officer for anti-abortion organization Stanton Public Policy and Stanton Healthcare, said “Roe vs. Wade is crumbling.”

“Roe vs. Wade is being dismantled right before our very eyes,” Mahoney said. “We are so utterly confident that Roe vs. Wade is going to end up on the scrap heap of history, like chattel slavery and segregation.”

“One thing I’d like to bring attention to is the great job Texas has done in not only protecting life in the womb, but also funding a hundred million in alternatives to abortion, to give women the support that they need to have a real choice to be a mother,” Kristen Day, the executive director of Democrats For Life of America, said Monday.

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