Roe v. Wade: how did this decision influence you personally?

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4. I was in my early 20's with 2 young sons, working in a hospital lab in NY.

The state of NY had legalized abortion before Roe, so it was already a topic of discussion, especially in the lab, where we did lab work for women having a D&C procedure. The small hospital in a small city performed , many procedures partially because we were close the Ct. border, where abortion was illegal. Our pathologist was adamant that this was a privacy issue and she told us we were not to discuss private medical procedures outside the laboratory and to basically keep any objections to ourselves. When one lab tech said she thought abortion was murder, our pathologist said, no, murder is the death of a woman at the hands of some butcher in a back ally abortion. She said she had performed too many autopsies on woman who had died in this horrible manner.
Let me tell you something, my fellow women. Until Roe, women had no rights. Until women had the right to decide what happens to our own bodies, we had nothing.