Watch now: Protesters gather at Capitol again to defend abortion rights

Gina Frank, organizing director for the Nebraska Democratic Get together, was among the many crowd.

“I’m right here as we speak standing up for individuals’s bodily autonomy, individuals’s reproductive freedom and the power of individuals to make their very own well being care selections,” she mentioned.

Frank has been attending rallies in help of abortion rights since about 2016, however mentioned she had no robust opinions on the problem earlier than she had her personal little one.

“My being pregnant was very easy, however even that’s nonetheless actually onerous. Even an uncomplicated being pregnant was actually onerous on my physique and my psychological well being for a really needed child,” Frank mentioned. “I can’t think about placing myself into the footwear of anyone who has been raped or is a sufferer of incest having to hold that fetus, that child for 10 months. It’s a human-rights abuse.”

A whole bunch confirmed as much as the same rally in downtown Omaha on Saturday, one in all many who happened throughout the nation over the weekend in help of abortion rights.

These in attendance in Lincoln on Sunday heard from state Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, who’s working on the Democratic ticket to signify Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District.

“I’ve fought for this for therefore lengthy. My mother fought for this. So many individuals have fought for this,” she mentioned. “We now have to get individuals out and up in arms to acknowledge that it’s time for ladies, males and households to talk up, look after one another and acknowledge that we’re accountable for ourselves, not the federal government.” 

The Lincoln-based senator additionally urged individuals to make use of their proper to vote within the particular election for the first District seat on June 28, the place Pansing Brooks will face off towards Republican nominee Mike Flood.

“That is just the start. We can’t be silent.”