Abortion was legalized in a number of states by the time roeVwade was decided, your generation was the Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young , Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart,etc, etc, etc, the crowd that ranged in age from 15 to 35 in 1960. They created and popularized the new order — free sex, drugs, multiple sexual partners, etc. — and made it the norm. Older than them were the people running the nation into the ground with legislation and court activism.
Wrong. Those creeps were all a couple of years younger than I. Baez married a kid who had been in my younger cousin’s Cub Scout Den, David Harris. Peter, Paul, & Mary were probably older, but they’d lived a fast life in the East.
Younger, younger, younger — but oh, so precocious and rebelious. Kids in my class (and I went to UC Berkeley) were all much more conservative than those who were 4-5 years younger. Much. Berkeley was all “I Like Ike” when I was there.
I moved back to Berkeley as a young married woman a few years later, and I didn’t recognize the place. And yes, I sent my first (and last) telegram at the behest of my church opposing Ronald Reagan when he was considering signing the Bill to legalize abortion. I couldn’t believe he actually did it.
But, then (after a taste of Johnson and Carter) I forgave him when he acknowledged that signing that Bill was the biggest mistake he ever made and that he’d never sign such a Bill again. Of course, by then it was a moot point because the US SC had decided R v Wade.