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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Zack Miller

‘Until we win’: Abortion rights activists fill downtown streets a month before midterms

Hundreds of pro-abortion advocates march along South State Street in the Loop during the nationwide Women’s Wave Day of Action, which aims to encourage people to vote for candidates who support abortion, according to a press release, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

“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. 

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