“How are you ever prepared for an illegitimate Supreme Court that rips away fundamental human and civil rights from half of this country’s population?” says Merle Hoffman, a women’s rights activist and founder of the Choices Women’s Medical Center.
by the court’s conservative majority — this one upending decades of precedent assuring a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion.
“Just imagine people being back in alleys again with people who are unqualified doing things … This is just unbelievable that we are in a version of a pre-Handmaid's Tale,” she said referring to the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood. “This is a very, very sad day for the progress of our nation, and the progress of women.”
, according to the Guttmarcher Institute, imperiling millions of women seeking the service across much of the United States. Some New Yorkers who have dedicated their careers to providing abortions said while the ruling was expected after a virtually identical draft copy was published by Politico in early May, it was a devastating blow, just the same.
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