Earlier this month, a controversial vote on an abortion bill sent reproductive rights supporters spilling onto the statehouse floor with furious chants of “vote them out.”
The scene, however, didn’t unfold in a red state passing an extreme abortion restriction — but in deep-blue Rhode Island.
“What you have in Rhode Island is Democrats who had pledged to protect Roe, who turned their backs on us,” said Jordan Hevenor, a leader of the Womxn Project, a group supporting the legislation.
