Anti-abortion activists are targeting Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross for sponsoring legislation to expand abortion access in Maine, distributing flyers in her neighborhood and chalking the sidewalk in front of her home, according to abortion rights supporters.

Talbot Ross, the first Black speaker of the Maine House, is the lead sponsor of LD 1619, which seeks to allow women to have abortions later in pregnancy if a doctor deems it necessary. The bill narrowly passed the House last week and is pending in the Senate.

Opponents have distributed anonymous flyers throughout Talbot Ross’s Portland neighborhood showing her address and the front of her home, calling her a “baby killer” and describing her as lower than a “rapist.”

“That anti-abortion activists are targeting a Black woman in a position of leadership at her home is unsurprising as it is despicable,” Dr. Connie Adler, board chair of Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “The cost of leadership ought not to be intimidation and attacks.”

Gov. Janet Mills, Talbot Ross and Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Allagash) introduced the legislation earlier this year. Mills said she brought it forward in response to a Yarmouth woman who had to travel out of state after finding out her 32-week-old baby had a rare and lethal condition.

She said limitations in current Maine law and the national landscape prompted her to act.

Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision granting a federally protected right to an abortion.

The decision sent the issue back to the states, where a patchwork of abortion regulations means most abortions are banned in 14 states, according to The New York Times.

“Maine’s abortion providers collectively extend our unreserved support for Speaker Talbot Ross and her colleagues,” Maine Family Planning, Planned Parenthood and Mabel Wadsworth Center, said in a statement. “We will work with them to take all necessary precautions to protect legislators from further harassment. We see this cowardly attempt for what it is: an effort to intimidate and demean the Speaker of the House.”