Having been born after the Court decision was made, I have always been curious- what was the media reaction to this when it happened? Was it an outrage? And, what was the reaction in society, nationwide? Was the gravity of the decision realized immediately in private homes?
If you look into this, you'll see that the media was complicit in lying to the American people about abortion. It was sold to America by the abortion lobby and the media using made-up surveys and other made-up "facts". Check out David Kupelian's book "The Marketing of Evil".
To the best of my recollection, although many people disagreed, it was not seen as an enormous outrage. I get the impression that conservatives, including Reagan, had let their guard down for a while.
One reason may have been that (again as best I remember) hardly anybody doubted that legalizing abortion would practically eliminate illegitimate births. There were those - and I was one - who saw this as a cure vastly worse than the disease, but that view did not prevail.