I think the important thing to know is that women are intelligent and they know how to take care of themselves.

We care about women getting the health care that they need to get. Women need to take this in a timely way and anything that prevents that will be an obstacle.

Like the impact the Roe v. Wade decision had on women's reproductive health care, this decision will have significant impact on women's lives, too.

It's frustrating really. I mean, even Susan Wood resigned. That shows her own frustration.

The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''