CLEVELAND, Ohio -- More than a thousand people gathered Saturday afternoon at Market Square in Cleveland for the Women’s March Cleveland, one of more than 500 planned marches around the United States to protest efforts to restrict reproductive rights like the recent Texas abortion law.
Before marching to the Carnegie Bridge, the crowd listened to a handful of speakers, including former Ohio Senator Nina Turner of Cleveland. Turner fired up the crowd with a passionate speech on why women need to keep fighting for their reproductive rights, as well as having a little fun by reminding the crowd of her bill aimed at men’s sexual well-being that she introduced in 2012. Ohio Senate Bill 307, which would have regulated a man’s ability to obtain an erectile dysfunction drug, went nowhere.
Other speakers included Kevin Kelley, president of Cleveland City Council; Delores Grey, Cleveland councilwoman; Melissa Graves, chief executive officer of Journey Center for Safety and Healing,; Sherri Grossman, executive director of Northeast Ohio Women’s Center and others.
Once the speeches concluded, the crowd marched east on Lorain Avenue to the Carnegie Bridge and went about halfway across the bridge before turning back to Market Square where the rally concluded.
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