“I’m 70 years old and we were talking about this when I was in college, and that’s insane to me. That, you know, 50 years later we are still fighting this fight,” said Jane Amgarola, a retired educator from Washington, D.C.
“It’s getting, you know, closer and closer to ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’” she added.
Susan McDonnell, from Richmond, Virginia, lamented that the rights women gained decades ago are being stripped away by the evangelical movement.
“We saw our mothers fight for these rights, and now we’re back here again and have daughters and kids we’re worried about, and I just feel like we’re going completely backwards and we’re putting the Bible and religious beliefs before constitutional rights, and it’s a sad day. It’s a scary time,” she said.
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