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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rachel Sharp

She worked in family planning on the day Roe v Wade was decided. Fifty years later, she’s fighting for abortion rights again

Julia Saqui / The Independent

An elderly woman who started working in family planning on the day the Roe v Wade ruling was made has said she never thought she would be back outside the Supreme Court fighting for abortion rights 50 years later.

Carol Folk traveled from her assisted living home in Virginia to protest outside the US Supreme Court on Saturday after the nation’s highest court struck down the constitutional right to abortion access and pushed reproductive rights back to the 1970s.

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