"From Germany to Alabama, from the Catholic Church to the Taliban, all patriarchies - and especially racist ones - try to control women's bodies and reproduction," she says. "[But] contraception should be available, and both men and women should be responsible for it...."Our education systems aren't explaining that patriarchy and racism are political, not natural."  ~Gloria Steinem, 2019

Religious bodies and religious persons can continue to teach their own particular views to their constituents with all the vigor they desire. People whose conscience forbids abortion are not compelled by law to have abortions. They are free to practice their religion according to the tenets of their personal or corporate faith.  The reverse is also now true since the Supreme Court decision. Those whose conscience or religious convictions are not violated by abortion may not now be forbidden by a religious law to obtain an abortion if they so choose.

~W. Barry Garrett, Washington Bureau Chief, The Baptist Press, January 31, 1973