Why two young women traveled far to protest outside Supreme Court

Two women were among more than a thousand people who descended upon the nation's high court on Wednesday as it heard a historic abortion case.

With loud voices on both sides of the abortion debate booming over dueling speakers outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, many of those protesting were young women -- both for and against abortion rights.

ABC News spoke to two of them about why they wanted to be close to where the justices were hearing the historic case that could decide the fate of Roe v. Wade and abortion access.

Here are their stories:

Maya Ward, South Carolina