Honestly, I tend to think she was taken advantage of by Sarah Weddington, who was basically just out to make a name for herself. And I say that as someone whose views would generally be regarded as pro-choice.
If the abortion rights movement had simply been content to let abortion slowly become legalized state-by-state, it would have been much harder for a cohesive pro-life movement to metastasize onto the Christian Right and create such a major backlash.
Red- Illegal.
Purple- Legal in cases of rape.
Blue- Legal in cases of danger to woman's health.
Green- Legal in cases of danger to woman's health, rape or incest, or likely damaged fetus.
Yellow- Legal upon request.
WTF New Jersey? Granted I guess you could just go to New York so it wasn't that big of a deal, but still weird. Also how is the South more progressive than most of the country?
Because it makes perfect sense for segregationists to support access to abortion.
Well, just until just 8 years before, Connecticut and Massachusetts were the two states that banned birth control. So they were certainly more socially conservative than when they became the first two states to permanently get gay marriage.
