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.