I think she’s saying something quite different than what this article makes out. If you read the NYT interview, it is more clear that she thought that abortion would be covered under Medicaid because the prevailing thinking at the time was that our culture wanted fewer of certain people.
She was basically pleasantly surprised that the court didn’t cater to that supposed cultural sentiment.
So then she was vigorously opposed to R v. W and the abortion industry prior to 1980, right???????