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WELCOME TO "MATTER OF FACT." THIS MONDAY, THE SUPREME COURT WILL GO BACK IN SESSION. IN THE SPOTLIGHT, A MISSISSIIPP CASE BARRING ABORTIONS AFTER 15 WEEKS. IT’A S CASE LEGAL EXPERTSAY S COULD PROVIDE A DIRECT CHALLENGE TO ROE V. WADE. IN 1973, T CHEOURT’S DECISION ON ROE VERSUS WADE LEGALIDZE ABORTION NIOATNWIDE PRR TOIO THE VIABILITY OF THE FETUS, USUALLY AT 24 WEEKS. WE SPOKE TO TWO WOMEN, NANCY MILLER AND SUE PERLGUT, WHO MECA OF AGE BEFORE THAT DECISION. WE MET THEM AFTER EYTH CO-AUTHORED A LETTER TO THE EDITOR THAT RAN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. SUE: I DROVE MYSELF TO THE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY TRAIN STATION. I COULDN’T BRING ANYBODY WITH ME. I HAD TO WEAR A CARNATION IN MY LAPEL, WHICH IS W HOTHEY WOULD RECOGNIZE .ME WE GO INTO A REGULAR APARTMENT IN A IN A HIGH-RISE BUILDI.NG THEY TAKE ME FIRST, AND THEY GIVE ME LESS DRUGS. I WAKE UP ARHEING SCREAMING AND I REALIZED IT’S ME. I’M SCREAMING, BECAUSE I'’ FEELING THE PAIN, AND THE DOCTOR SAYS, "MY NEIGHBORS," AND SLAPS ME, AND I’M BACK O.UT AND NEXT THING I KNOW, I WAKE UP AND THE ABORTION’S OVER. I DIDN’T HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS AFTERWARDS. I WAS REALLY, ALRELY LUCKY. NANCY: I HAD JUST MOVETOD BOSTON, AFTER GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE, AND GOT PREGNANT AND WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTAD.TE I COULDN’T MAKE MYSELF THINK ABOUT HAVING AN ABORTI.ON YOU KNOW, I’D ALREADY SINNED ONCE, RIGHT? I CARRIED IT TO TERM AND SURRENDERED MY BABY FOR ADOPTION. BOY, THE SHAME, THE STIGMA WAS STILL THERE 19.IN IT TOOK ME FIVE YEARS TO GETO T MY UNDER THE COVERS HOWLING GRIEF ABOUT HAVING GIVEN HER AWAY. WE ALL DESERVED CHOI.CE AND WE DIDN’T HAVE IT. SUE: I NEVER WANT ANY WOMAN TO HAVE TO HAVE AN ILLEGAL ABORTION AND FEEL THE SHAME. BECAUSE I DID. I FELT SHAME AND I FELT GUILT. WE DIDN’T HAVE ACCESS TOIR BTH CONTROL UNLESS YOU WERE MARRIE SO WHEN WE DO TALK TO YOUNG WOMEN AT COLLEGES, THEY GET IT THEY UNDERSTAND, THEY’RE IAN WORLD RIGHT NOW WHERE IT’S VERY SCARY FOR THEM. NANCY: I ABSOLUTELY THINK IT’S POSSIBLE TO BE PRO-LIFE AND PRO-CHOICE AT THE SAME TE.IM SUE: IABF ORTION WERE SEEN AS JUST THIS MEDICAL PROCEDURE THAT ANYBODY COULD HAVE, I DON’T THINK IT WOULD BE FRAU