Women's rights advocates in Texas and across the nation launched a series of 660 marches today in protest against the state's most restrictive abortion law.
A crowd of more than 1,000 protesters gathered at the Texas Capitol, in Austin, as people chanted 'Abort Abbott,' in referenced to Texas Gov. Greg Abbot who signed into law a measure that bans abortions after six weeks in August.
The Austin protests was duplicated across as protestors gathered in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Columbus, Houston, Topeka and Washington D.C. in solidary of women's reproductive rights.
The demonstrations come days before the start of a new term for the Supreme Court that will decide the future of abortion rights in the United States, after appointments of justices by President Donald Trump strengthened conservative control of the high court.
Hundreds gathered in Austin, Texas, to kick off the 660 marches scheduled on Saturday in a nationwide protest of the Texan six-week abortion ban that was passed into law in August
Protestors in Los Angeles marched down the streets in solidarity of the women in Texas on October 2
Women's rights advocates marched with the Women's March banner in Los Angeles
Protestors in Topkea, Kansas, also joined in to show their support for women's reproductive rights
Protestors also gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to march in support of abortion rights in the US
Protestors in Washington D.C marched along the capitol as they made their way to the Supreme Court as the high court prepares for a new term that could decide the future of abortion rights in the country
The march is part of 'a fight to secure, safeguard, and strengthen our constitutional right to an abortion,' Rachel O'Leary Carmona, executive director of the Women's March, said in a statement.
'And it's a fight against the Supreme Court justices, state lawmakers, and senators who aren´t on our side - or aren't acting with the urgency this moment demands.'
The first Women's March of the Biden administration headed straight for the steps of the Supreme Court.
Many thousands of women filled a square near the White House for a rally before the march.
They waved signs that said 'Mind your own uterus,' 'I love someone who had an abortion' and 'Abortion is a personal choice, not a legal debate,' among other messages.
Some wore T-shirts reading simply '1973,' a reference to the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which made abortion legal for generations of American women.
Protestors across the nation held up signs and yelled chants in support of women's rights. One person wrote over their own sign to read that they were someone who had an abortion
Protestors in Philadelphia stood against the Texas law. One male protestor held a sign that read, 'Her Body, Her Choice!'
Many of the protestors in Washington D.C. had signs alluding to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a women's rights champion
Each protest varied in size. A smaller amount of protesters gathered in Columbus, Ohio, to show their support
One protestor wore a bloodied outfit of Lady Justice with a woman's reproductive organ crucified on a cross
