Holcomb held a sign with a slogan she said she found online: "My body is not a democracy, it is an empire and I am the dictator. Almost 30 years later, the Supreme Court revisited the issue of abortion in Casey v. Jessica Holcomb, a 31-year-old high school band director from Indianapolis, attended the Chicago rally with a big group of friends. The decision in Roe faced a great deal of controversy, and 46 states needed to change their abortion laws as a result of the holding. She told the crowd that abortion should be safe, legal and accessible and to take action - to not just march today but to vote in November for candidates who support abortion rights.
Stratton said the rally was about economic and racial justice as much as it was about abortion rights. "Here in Illinois," Stratton said, "we trust women." Casey (1992), which affirmed that individuals maintain certain privacy rights from the government in family planning. Already, nearly half of the states have or will pass laws that ban abortion, while others have enacted strict measures. Juliana Stratton said as a mother of four daughters, she fought for them to have more rights not fewer. In doing so, it would overturn an almost 50-year precedent set by the Supreme Court’s decisions in Roe v. Wade, abortion rights will be determined by states, unless Congress acts. Greear told the crowd they would need to do more than show up for rallies, urging people to take action by supporting abortion funds, voting and sharing "your abortion stories loudly and proudly." "Work together and refuse to let our opponents turn back the clock," she said. Conventiongoers hugged one another, and some were. Wade would lead to cooperative efforts to pass legislation protecting life, women's rights and. Paula Thornton Greear, with Planned Parenthood of Illinois, was among the rally's attendees. Wade, the 1973 decision that had made access to abortion a federal constitutional right. Wade itself was a costly and tragic failure, which has cost millions of unborn lives and decades of political division and rancor. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v.
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