A 'sucker punch': Some women fear setback to hard-won rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% :Of course, not every woman feels that abortion is a right worth preserving.
46% : Capping it off was Roe v. Wade a year later, granting a constitutional right to abortion.
45% : Steinem, in fact, credits a "speak-out" meeting she attended on abortion in her 30s as the moment she pivoted from journalism to activism -- and finally felt enabled to speak about her own secret abortion.
45% : For AP's full coverage of the Supreme Court ruling on abortion, go to https://apnews.com/hub/abortion.
42% : "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.
42% : Then, over the years she came to deeply oppose abortion, and no longer considers herself a feminist because she believes the word has been co-opted by those on the left.
41% : "An unjust court can't stop abortion, but it guarantees civil disobedience and disrespect for the court."
29% : Steinem's blunt remark cuts to the heart of the despair some opponents are feeling about Friday's historic rollback of the 1973 case legalizing abortion.

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