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

Published: July 1, 2022, 9:50 a.m.

b'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.\\n\\nShe never got to conclude her argument \\u2014 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.\\n\\nGuest: Nancy Stearns, a lawyer who used an argument of equal rights to challenge the constitutionality of abortion bans.'