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\"Abortion is not our dirty little secret. We did what's best for us and that's what matters,\" Martin added.

Shannon Brewer, director of Jackson Women's Health, the last abortion provider in Mississippi, made an argument for public health as well, reminding of the days before Roe when women died in resorting to so-called \"back-alley\" abortions.

\"If you make abortion illegal, abortion does not stop,\" she said.

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PHOTO: Protesters, demonstrators and activists gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on Dec. 1, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
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Lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, made the short trek from the Capitol to outside the Supreme Court to show support for their respective sides. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., chatted with anti-abortion protesters, while Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who has shared her own story of getting an abortion, spoke to a fired up crowd to demand \"freedom\" and \"justice.\"

\"I'm a lover of liberty and I'm a lover of justice. Abortion care is a constitutionally protected human right and we demand it stays that way,\" Bush said.

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PHOTO: A group of Democratic members of Congress march to join the crowd at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 1, 2021, as arguments begin in the high-profile Mississippi abortion case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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Majorities of Americans support the Supreme Court upholding Roe v. Wade and oppose states making it harder for abortion clinics to operate, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll this month. Three in four Americans, including majorities of Republicans, independents and Democrats, say the decision of whether or not to have an abortion should be left to a woman and her doctor.

Separately, the Supreme Court has a decision pending in a separate dispute over Texas' unprecedented six-week abortion ban, SB8, which has denied women in Texas of the constitutional right to an abortion for nearly three months. Activists on Wednesday took aim at the Texas law, as well.

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PHOTO: Protesters, demonstrators and activists gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on Dec. 1, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
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Amid the passion outside, inside, the court's six-member conservative majority appeared headed toward altering 30 years of settled law protecting a woman's right to end a pregnancy before fetal viability and uphold Mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks.

\"We are the majority,\" Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, told the crowd. \"And we stand in the light.\"

ABC News' Devin Dwyer contributed to this report.

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