Abortion rights supporters protest in Oklahoma

Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice

Some 25 supporters of women’s right to choose abortion rallied in front of the state Capitol in Oklahoma City May 21 against a bill that would have made performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to three years in prison. The day before the protest Gov. Mary Fallin, a staunch opponent of abortion rights, vetoed the bill, which was intended to challenge the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. “We are a voice for public opposition” to attacks on women’s rights, said Rev. Dwight Welch of the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, which called the protest.

— ARLENE RUBINSTEIN