
“What’s changed? Nothing,” said Aurie Pennick, a former civil rights lawyer and a Chicago resident for the last 70 years. “Our fight is still the fight. It has broadened, it’s more deliberate, but in terms of change… This isn’t the end the same way it isn’t the beginning.”
Pennick said she sees a connection between the protests she attended in 1966 organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the demonstration that brought hundreds of Chicagoans to the Loop Saturday once more to demand abortion rights for all.