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

FILE - A mother and child walk past reporters, clinic defenders and anti-abortion activists standing outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - Protesters hold signs in Portland, Ore., about the Supreme Court's decision overruling Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022. 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. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File) FILE - Anna Kelley recites the Rosary while praying outside a Planned Parenthood clinic as patients arrive for abortion appointments, May 27, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. 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. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) FILE - Planned Parenthood advocacy programs manager Allison Terracio, left, stands outside the clinic to escort patients showing up for abortion appointments as Valerie Berry, program manager for the anti-abortion group A Moment of Hope, holds up a sign at the entrance in Columbia, S.C., May 27, 2022. 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. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) FILE - Marchers descend on the Capitol in Springfield, Ill., to demonstrate for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, May 16, 1976. 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. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Abortion-rights protesters rally at the Supreme Court, June 24, 2022, in Washington. 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. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File) FILE - Mitzi Rivas hugs her daughter Maya Iribarren as abortion-rights protesters gather following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, June 24, 2022. 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. (AP Photo/Josie Lepe, File) FILE - Writer and political activist Gloria Steinem speaks to the crowd during the Women's March on Washington, Jan. 21, 2017, in Washington. Steinem 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. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) FILE - Gloria Steinem of the National Organization for Women attends an Equal Rights Amendment rally outside the White House on July 4, 1981, in Washington. 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. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - Demonstrators gather at the federal courthouse following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Some opponents of the decision are feeling despair over the historic rollback of the 1973 case Roe V. Wade legalizing abortion. 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? (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
A ‘sucker punch’: Some women fear setback to hard-won rights