Friday was joyful for activists who have spent decades fighting to end abortion, and now they want to see abortion restrictions spread nationwide
A sign taped to the front of Houston Womens Clinic says the clinic is no longer providing abortions after the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling Friday., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Melchor said she has been actively opposing abortions since she was a 21-year-old college student in Southern California in 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that women had the right to terminate their pregnancies. Cathy Nix, executive director for the San Antonio Coalition for Life, said she has been following the anti-abortion movement since she found out what an abortion was around the age of 12. She felt a calling to protect the unborn and has been fighting ever since, not knowing what the future would hold.Even though Friday’s ruling was widely predicted after a draft opinion of the high court’s decision was leaked in April, anti-abortion leaders were still buzzing.
"This is a miracle which God has accomplished," said Pastor Laurence White of Our Savior Lutheran Church,"through the hearts and the hands, thousands of faithful volunteers, like the people gathered here today who have stood on the sidewalks, who have prayed, who have longed for this day.
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