CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Abortion rights activists in Chicago on Saturday protested Texas’ new abortion law they say is too restrictive. The law went into effect this past week.
About 20 protesters gathered at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street where they chanted and held signs with phrases like, "No uterus, no opinion."
Activist Sammy Lines, who wore pants with fake blood on them, reflected on an illegal abortion she had decades ago with a doctor who was performing the procedures in secret.
"The bloody pants represents back alley abortions or self-induced abortions where women died. I come from the generation who remembers illegal abortions. In fact, I had to have one," Line told WBBM Newsradio.” Two weeks after me, somebody died. And it was quite horrendous. I sat there, looking at the newspaper, going that ‘could’ve been me, that could’ve been me.’”
The new Texas law bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, making it the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
“The Supreme Court could have stopped this and didn’t. Right now, this law is on the books. I kind of knew it was coming but still it was like a punch in the gut,” activist Dee Williams, who led the protest, told WBBM Newsradio.
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