“Women and men should be treated equally under the law. This includes equal pay and as well as the right to choose what is done with their body.”

Protests against the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe V. Wade also happened here at home… “It’s not about abortion, it’s about women's health, reproductive rights in our autonomy with our own bodies and the decisions that we make for ourselves,” Katie Tomberlin with the Carteret County Democratic Party said.