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

Mitzi Rivas hugs daughter Maya Iribarren as abortion rights protesters gather Friday at San Francisco City Hall.At 88, Gloria Steinem has long been the nation’s most visible feminist and advocate for women’s rights. But at 22, she was a frightened American in London getting an illegal abortion of a pregnancy so unwanted, she actually tried to throw herself down the stairs to end it.

Reproductive freedom was not the only demand of second-wave feminism, as the women’s movement of the ’60s and ’70s is known, but it was surely one of the most galvanizing issues, along with workplace equality. “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.

“I think we are on a knife’s edge,” she says. “On the one hand, there’s been 50 years of a change in women’s condition in this society,” she adds, recalling that when she was growing up, women could only respond to employment ads in the “women’s section,” to list just one example. But when it comes to Roe v. Wade, she says, “I believe that the rights of the child in the mother’s womb are equally important. To quote Psalm 139, I believe that God ‘formed my inner parts’ and ‘knitted me together in my mother’s womb.’”

“My thought was, what era are we living in?” Lambert says. “We are moving backwards. I’m just furious on behalf of our children and our grandchildren.”

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The Christo-fascist movement in this country is now basking in it's perceived success. It will not rest on it's laurels but emboldened it will push ever harder for full and unopposed control of this country. It is all about that control it is not negotiable and they will not stop

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ALL of my daughter’s friends have adjusted their college application list to only blue state ones. Parents didn’t even have to say anything. They know and they understand! GOP run states will not be getting any of those prized California women students!!

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