I remember that day rather well.
I was a college biology major then.
I thought, well, so they’re saying it’s OK to kill a kid in the first trimester.
Note that in the headline, which everyone forgets: THAT’S THE WAY IT WAS SOLD. ONLY THE FIRST 3 MONTHS, WHEN “It’s just a mass of cells”....
As PP always likes to say.
Except anyone who knew Ontogeny (umm, millions of first year biology students) would know that a) it’s a human and b) it isn’t a mass of cells by 12 weeks.
You’d fail Human Anat and Phys if you thought such a thing.
But that’s how it was sold.
Oddly they forgot to mention Doe v. Bolton, adjudicated the same day. Which extended it to...well, anytime up to natural birth.
Legalized murder of the innocents. Even in 1973, most people would have rebelled at that idea.