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'Sucker Punch': Some Women Fear Setback To Hard-Won Rights After Roe Reversal

'Sucker Punch': Some Women Fear Setback To Hard-Won Rights After Roe Reversal

'Sucker Punch': Some Women Fear Setback To Hard-Won Rights After Roe Reversal
Jun 26, 2022 1 min, 39 secs

Wade is succinct: “Obviously,” she wrote in an email message, “without the right of women and men to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.”.

If a right so central to the overall fight for women’s equality can be revoked, they ask, what does it mean for the progress women have made in public life in the intervening 50 years.

The women who fought for those rights recall an astonishing decade of progress from about 1963 to 1973 including the right to equal pay, the right to use birth control, and Title IX in 1972 which bans discrimination in education.

Many of the women who identified as feminists at the time had an illegal abortion or knew someone who did.

“Abortion is so tied to the women’s movement in this country,” says Carole Joffe, a sociologist at the University of California, San Francisco medical school who studies and teaches the history of abortion.

“Along with improved birth control, what legal abortion meant was that women who were heterosexually active could still take part in public life.

It enabled the huge change we’ve seen in women’s status over the last 50 years.” Joffe says many women, like her, now feel that the right to contraception could be at risk — something she calls “unthinkable.”.

Wade upheaval as a chilling challenge to the triumphs of the women’s movement.

Linda Sloan, who has volunteered the last five years, along with her husband, for the anti-abortion organization A Moment of Hope in Columbia, South Carolina, says she values women’s rights.

She says she has tried to instill those values in her two daughters and two sons, and upholds them with her work at two women’s shelters, trying to empower women to make the right choices.

“No women’s rights have been harmed in the decision to stop killing babies in the womb,” Kilmartin says.

“I thought it would get easier, not harder, to have an abortion in this country,” she says.

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