What are the biggest mistakes in women’s and abortion rights of the past 35 years?
If you had said to me 36 years later, “You will still be talking about this,” I would have said, “Oh no.” That just seemed impossible to me. Because I thought once people knew what it was to be able to make their own decisions about reproduction, they would be so adamant that that would not change, that you wouldn’t have to keep fighting that.… The opposition is absolutely determined. They may change faces a little bit, but they continue to be adamant about trying to make reproductive services unavailable, illegal if they could. Being a women’s activist, did you have trouble dating? Well, yes. I mean, I was married earlier and then divorced. And the problem for me was just I was so busy doing all of the different things I did. Dating was not my first priority. Did you meet men who were—? A little intimidated, shall we say? And then, I think, you do worry that somebody is asking you out not because he really likes you, but because he wants to brag about taking Sarah Weddington out.… Eve
