Juneau residents who rallied against the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade say they’re taking their outrage to the polls.
The crowd was thick across the street from the Capitol on Saturday. Passing cars tooted their horns and the sun reflected off of signs.
Deb Etheridge says she’s marched in Washington, D.C. and has been an advocate for women’s rights for decades.She said she wants her daughter — and her daughter’s daughters — to have the same protection that she had. She carried a watercolor painting of a uterus “raising the fallopian tube finger.”The rally was organized by the Juneau Pro-Choice Coalition and included speakers from throughout the community.
The phrase “Abortion is health care” arranged in the shape of a heart on a sign held by a protester at a pro-choice rally on Saturday, June 25, 2022 in Juneau. But he warned that a constitutional convention could threaten those rights. Every decade, Alaskans get to choose whether or not to revisit the state constitution. That vote comes this November.
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