No matter what side you're on, by now just about everyone who cares about current events

has heard about the leak-draft opinion indicating that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn

Roe v. Wade, the landmark opinion that legalized abortion a half a century ago.

For some, it's a moment to celebrate and prepare for what comes next.

A abortion and Roe v. Wade has been our Goliath.

Okay, so now we've slain Goliath, presumably.

So after you've slain Goliath, there are still a lot of Philistines.

Terry Herring has been fighting to end legal abortion for more than three decades.

She had choose life Mississippi and directs the state chapter of Americans United for

life.

Even before the leak draft, the anti-abortion movement was gaining victories, as lawmakers

and states hostile to abortion rights chipped away at the ability to access an abortion,

chiefly by adding regulatory requirements to perform or obtain one such as waiting periods

additional exams, specific equipment requirements, and so forth.

But the battle to end abortion rights has been going on almost since the moment the court

rendered its opinion in Roe.

Chief Justice Warren Berger opened oral arguments for Roe v. Wade in December 1971.

Sarah Weddington argued the case in front of the Supreme Court on two separate occasions,

the first time at just 26 years old.

Here she is in October 1972.

We are once again before this court to ask, relieve, against the continued enforcement

of the Texas abortion statute.

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