Protesters gathered on the Hays County Historic Courthouse lawn after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Hundreds of abortion rights supporters voiced their opposition to Friday’s decision. The court’s ruling puts into effect Texas’ “trigger law” which will ban all abortions in the state with the exception only to save the life of a pregnant patient or if the patient risks “substantial impairment” of a bodily function.
“We need to be mindful to not only extreme cases but to defend all abortion,” Sam Benavides told the crowd Saturday. “I think we all know and deeply care for somebody who has gotten an abortion and it’s sickening to think that other people in need of abortions will no longer have the ability to choose their own path the way that I did.”
