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Bans Off Our Bodies schedules Roe v. Wade protest in Fort Worth for Saturday

Abortion-rights protesters gather following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court’s landmark abortion cases.
Abortion-rights protesters gather following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court’s landmark abortion cases. Gemunu Amarasinghe AP

Bans Off Our Bodies, an abortion rights group, is planning a protest Saturday in downtown Fort Worth in response to the Supreme Court decision released Friday that overturned Roe V. Wade and returned to individual states the right to fully regulate abortions.

On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court repealed the constitutional right to abortion when it overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade case — handing control to individual states.

Bans Off Our Bodies plans to meet at the Tarrant County Courthouse at noon on Saturday.

“Women should have full body autonomy,” Bans Off Our Bodies said on the protest page. “Pregnancy is not something to be forced because women still die in pregnancy or suffer major health issues. Also, the leading cause of maternal death is homicide. Take away the safe way to abortion and you’ll only find more dead women.”

This story was originally published June 24, 2022 at 5:12 PM.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
James Hartley was a news reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 2019 to 2024
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