How Roe v. Wade Came Under Attack Before: The Last Abortion Clinic (full documentary) - FRONTLINE PBS
How, despite “Roe v. Wade,” anti-abortion advocates successfully led campaigns to pass multiple state laws limiting access to abortion — with efforts in Mississippi as a blueprint. (From 2005)
In the summer of 2005, more than 30 years after Roe v. Wade established access to abortion services as a fundamental right, a FRONTLINE documentary team spent two months traveling across the South, where states had been particularly active in passing restrictions on abortion.
"The assault on abortion rights is very clever. It's very smart. And we are losing," one anonymous abortion provider said in the resulting documentary.
In interviews with abortion providers and their patients, with staff at an anti-abortion pregnancy counseling center, and with key legal strategists on both sides of the national debate, producer Raney Aronson-Rath documented the success of the anti-abortion movement and the growing number of states with regulations limiting access to abortion. The documentary traced that success back to how anti-abortion advocates seized on Planned Parenthood v. Casey — the 1992 Supreme Court decision that upheld Roe v. Wade but changed the standard by which abortion laws were judged.
“Their tactics changed,” Betty Thompson, former director of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s last abortion clinic, told FRONTLINE of the anti-abortion movement’s response to Casey. “They began to see: ‘We have political clout now. And so while we have this power, we’re going to chip away at Roe v. Wade until the law is going to be on the books, but nobody will be able to access the service.'”
The documentary explored how Mississippi was a model for the anti-abortion movement’s efforts.
“Mississippi has an impressive track record,” Clarke Forsythe, senior legal counsel for Americans United for Life, told FRONTLINE. “Our goal is to see that other states pass the type of legislation that Mississippi has passed over the past decade, and we see a lot of legislative activity.”
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*sigh* 
That's been raging for years - that most of us were previously unware of. And I feel the same way, my teeth ache right now and I've only watched the first half, so far... 
As has been said, over 70% of Americans are pro-choice, yet because of the personal opinions of 4 justices appointed by 2 presidents who did not receive the votes of the majority of the American people (2000 and 2016), the clock has been turned back 50 years and untold numbers of women will face suffering and possible death. Not to mention, we've all heard the same people's claims on refusing to get the Covid vaccine during a global pandemic in which a million Americans have now died. They claimed that they had the right to refuse the vaccine because it was "my body, my choice."
And I feel the same way that you do, if you don't want an abortion, don't get one. But they feel the same way about issues like same sex marriage. If someone in Omaha or Minneapolis does or doesn't get an abortion or marry someone of the same gender, it's none of my business, nor is it the business of some SCOTUS justice. These personal choices only affect those who are making them.