About power of the minority over a rising majority. you have to remember, at the time, all of these machinations were going on, what was happening, what was the backdrop in american culture, you had the blize of women s liberation, and the black power movement, you had widely available contraception, so sexual sexual liberation, and it was the drift that the white patriarchy had enjoyed since the beginning of the united states as we know it, and all of that was being threatened in the moment that there was a sort of craven decision to weaponize abortion as the tip of the spear, to roll back decades of social progress, and i think the lesson that we have to learn from that is although they would want us to believe that this decision, it is an end game, and it would stop abortion, abortion