“Everyone loves someone who’s had an abortion,” Mia Raven, founder and director of POWER House, said.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The six people sitting on the porch have just returned from a protest supporting women’s reproductive rights outside the state capitol and are already planning their next one.
“In the late ’90s, we had over 20 clinics in the state. And now, in 2019, we have three for the whole state,” Mia Raven, founder and director of POWER House, said.Raven and other POWER House members stood on the steps of the Alabama State House on Thursday morning to protest HB314, a bill that amounts to a near total ban on abortions.fight became so heated among lawmakers“If you get rid of abortions, essentially, it's not going to go away.
Alabama is one of more than a dozen states with laws requiring women to make two trips to an abortion clinic. Raven said this is particularly difficult for low-income women who"can't afford child care or a place to stay or gas, even, just to come here and back.""Protesters screaming and yelling at them, calling them 'murderers,' calling them all sorts of names," she said.
Under the Alabama legislation, doctors could face up to 99 years in prison for performing an abortion procedure. “The body is created by God and he created women with the ability to have a child,” Rex Ponder said. “We have a responsibility to what God gave us." But for many lawmakers, the bill isn’t about a change in Alabama as much as it is about overturning Roe v. Wade nationwide.
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