An Abortion Rights Champion of the 1970s on Life Before and After Roe

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A little over 50 years ago, Nancy Stearns, a young lawyer, was presenting a case in New York with a bold legal assertion: that the right to abortion was fundamental to equal rights for women. She never got to conclude her argument — first New York changed the law, then came Roe v. Wade. Now, with Roe overturned, she describes how it feels to watch the right to terminate a pregnancy fall away. Guest: Nancy Stearns, a lawyer who used an argument of equal rights to challenge the constitutionality of abortion bans.

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1:25.0	Go back to the very beginning.
1:27.9	How did you get involved in the cause of abortion rights?
1:32.6	What drew you to it?
1:34.8	Well, it was the summer of 1963.
1:41.0	June of 1963.
1:48.1	The summer that I finished my master's degree, I drove south with a friend of mine.
1:54.8	And we thought we were going down just to do some volunteer work, briefly, with SNCC,
2:01.6	the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to assist the civil rights movement.
2:06.8	The young people working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee are characterized
2:12.3	by reckless energy, ethical change in race relations in the United States.
2:18.3	And rather than staying for the summer, I stayed for a year.
2:22.9	But the forces of our demand, our determination and our numbers, we just blended a segregated
2:30.5	style into a thousand pieces.
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