The Resistor Sisterhood held a rally outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Springfield Saturday to call attention to the pro-choice agenda, much if not all of which depends on electing like-minded candidates next month.
The Sisterhood has various cohorts. Patti Pace-Halpin is co-leader of the group’s reproductive rights task force.
“Could you imagine if your spouse, your relatives or friends couldn’t get the reproductive healthcare they needed or wanted?” said Pace-Halpin. “Well, due to the Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs case, millions of Americans have little to no access to abortion in their state.”
Dobbs is the case, earlier this year, that overturned the decades-old precedent of Roe v. Wade.
The group, some of whom previously had marched through the downtown farmers market, set up shop on Sixth and Monroe to chant and hold signs for passing traffic.