'My body, my choice': Charleston women, activists rally with each other, protecting reproductive rights in Saturday march

On Saturday, a plethora of individuals gathered with loud messages and signs, marching from Charleston City Hall to the U.S. Personalized House, sending a clear message to legislators to sustain and safeguard women's reproductive rights.

Charleston protestors joined in on the nationwide contact us to activity as several gather in the United States standing up for abortion rights in action to the near-ban of abortions in Texas that took effect on September 1.

" We're all gathered here today in support of freedom of self-determination over our bodies and reproductive rights and reproductive justice," says Meredith Matthews, Field Organizer for Planned Parenthood.

Matthews is a mother to a seven-year-old child that she brought to life as a teen. She shared that she comprehends the background and religious ramifications, but also for her, that has nothing to do with her womanhood or her body.

" I see all of this outrage for the people that are counter-protesting, simply me personally I ask yourself where is all their outrage when it pertains to securing the quality of life because it's not nearly enough, black women are 4 times more probable to pass away in maternity and childbirth, where's their outrage for that?"

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While the recent Texas regulation might emphasize to rid of rape, neighborhood leader Erica Sampson says "that is not a reality, it is simply opinion."

Sampson mentions that protestors are gathering to guarantee openness which needs are fulfilled within crucial neighborhoods such as individuals of color, low-income communities, and other communities that might be inaccessible in seeking assistance.

" It is not right, it is unequal and it is keeping us different as well," Sampson says. "Being here today represents the new mind-set of a woman, a lady is trans, it's anyone [who] identifies as a feminine pronoun."

Owner of Voices United, Erica Cokely, more describes the purpose of Saturday's celebration, saying "it's not your body, it's not your choice, it's our body, our choice, so obtain your bans up off our bodies."

" The only thing we desire just as women, just as people, as individuals, we want our voices to be heard," Cokely includes.

Cokely hopes that South Carolina "follows their own policies" and does not "jump on the bandwagon."

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