While walking through the Crimson Promenade yesterday between noon and 2 p.m., students and faculty may have noticed members of the UA College Democrats holding signs and chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, SB5 has got to go.”

Members of the organization protested in disapproval of Senate Bill 5, which would define a fertilized egg in a woman’s womb as a person.

The protestors said the bill, if passed, would ban abortion entirely and outlaw the “morning after pill.” In cases where a woman is suspected of causing her miscarriage, she might be investigated and possibly charged with a crime.

Charlotte Lawson, protest committee chair for the UA College Democrats, said that although she does not think this bill will pass, she still wants to raise awareness about the bill and other bills like it because they often fly under the radar.

“This bill is indicative of how Republicans and other politicians feel about women,” she said. “It is also indicative of politicians using women as tools.”

However, everyone present at the protest was not necessarily pro-choice.

Summer McCoy, a student bystander, said she was pleased to see the organization exercising their right to protest even though she is pro-life.

“The great thing about being an American citizen is that I have the right to make my own decisions,” she said. “I don’t agree with abortion, but I believe that everybody has a right to voice their opinion on the matter.”

While walking through the promenade and observing the protest, UA student Camille Harman asked a member of UA College Democrats to tell her more about SB5. She said that she heard about the bill through Facebook but didn’t know the details of it.

“Now that I know what this bill is really about, I just think that it is ignorant,” she said. “It is so invasive. The government doesn’t know a person’s situation in order to tell them what they can and can’t do with their body.”

UA College Democrat member, Noah Cannon, shared Harman’s beliefs. Cannon said that the bill was foolishly written and refuses a woman the right to choose.

“I have a fundamental belief that women have the right to decide what to do with their own uterus,” he said. “This bill represents a very invasive school of thought that restricts a woman’s freedom over her own body.”

UA College Democrats further encourages everyone to go out and vote in November in order to ensure that SB5, and bills like it, never become law.