(La Porte, IN) - Several women with signs declaring support for abortion rights stood outside the downtown La Porte courthouse Monday afternoon.  The protest was on the two year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade, a ruling in 1972 that made abortion a constitutional right.

 

Cindy Torgesen of La Porte said she believes the decision to have an abortion should be left up to women to decide.  She said one of the purposes for the protest was to keep the rights of women from eroding further.  Torgesen encouraged females “to stand up for themselves and their rights and realize they are created equal.”

 

Abortion is now up to states to decide and some have chosen to outlaw it all together even if the pregnancy resulted from a sex crime.

 

“I don’t feel that it’s right for a 12 or 13 year old girl who’s molested and impregnated that she should be further traumatized and forced to carry that child to term,” Torgesen  said.

 

“I think that it should come down what you feel is best for you as an individual.  That is what is fair,” said Janie Blower also of La Porte.

 

The women, holding pink signs during their march, also took a stand on other women's rights issues like equal pay.