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Landmark Abortion Ruling Divides Activists in Evansville

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Right to Life says it will save lives; an abortion rights supporter says she's "horrified"

Friday's Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade has received sharply different reactions in Evansville. WNIN’s John Gibson reports:

Mary Ellen Van Dyke heads up Right to Life of Southwest Indiana:

"This is a tremendous victory that has the potential to save millions of innocent lives, and we've come a long way since 1973."

That’s when the high court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion.

Van Dyke say in anticipation of new ruling, the local anti-abortion group is developing a mobile crisis pregnancy center:

"This will offer pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and sexually-transmitted infection tests."

Right to Life supports adoption over abortion.

Meantime, abortion rights activist Kirt Ethridge of Evansville says agencies like Planned Parenthood need support more than ever:

"Evansville's Planned Parenthood does not provide abortion access but they do provide access to tests, and to contraceptives, and to education. I think things like that are going to become very important."

Ethridge, who is in a same-sex marriage, says they're also worried about the future of the law that legalized such unions.