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Jackson residents Erin Shirley Orey, Erma Johnson, Pahedadra Robinson and Cheryl Turner joined hundreds of others to demonstrate in favor of abortion rights outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019.

At age 95, Doreene McCoy, seated in a wheelchair, arrived at the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019 to protest a national wave of anti-abortion legislation. To her left is her daughter, Joedda Gore, who said her mother first began participating in protests after Donald Trump's election in 2016.

Mississippi State Rep. Alyce Clarke, D-Jackson, speaks to a rally attendee. She joined abortion rights activists outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019, to speak out against a wave of anti-abortion legislation.

Derenda Hancock leads a group of "clinic escorts" at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the state's only abortion clinic. The escorts help patients avoid anti-abortion activists as they enter the clinic.

Planned Parenthood Southeast Director Felicia Brown Williams spoke out alongside other abortion rights activists outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019, in protest of a national wave of anti-abortion legislation.

Outside the Mississippi State Capitol, Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance activist Patricia Ice told the story of the illegal abortion she obtained before the U.S. Supreme Court found a constitutional right to abortion in 1973.

Former state Sen. Gloria Williamson of Philadelphia, Miss., shared a story about a failed pregnancy that nearly killed her in 1963. She told the story at an abortion rights rally outside the Mississippi State Capitol building on May 23, 2019.

Anti-abortion activist Coleman Boyd crashed an abortion rights demonstration at the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019.

Doreene McCoy, 95, and her daughter, Joedda Gore, 75, joined a protest against state bans on abortion outside the Mississippi Capitol on May 21, 2019.

Abby Williams, 24, and Cameron Baker, 26, showed up to support abortion rights in a demonstration outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019.

Dozens of men joined women in a demonstration in support of abortion rights outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019.

Men and women held "Stand With Black Women" signs at a rally in support of abortion rights outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019.

Dozens of men joined women in a demonstration in support of abortion rights outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019.

Yazoo City-resident Mindy Brown joined abortion rights demonstrators outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May 21, 2019. She held up a metal wire clothes hanger with the words, "Never Again" written on it—an allusion to a pre-Roe era when women used hangers to self-induce abortions, often with deadly results.

Derenda Hancock, who leads the group of "clinic escorts" who help patients avoid protesters as they enter the abortion clinic in Jackson, stands between a group of abortion rights activists and anti-abortion protester Coleman Boyd. Boyd crashed a pro-abortion rights demonstration at the state Capitol on May 21, 2019.