Q&A: Eleanor Smeal.

• Position: On the Line

Eleanor Smeal served as president of the National Organization for Women in the 1970s and 1980s and went on to become a cofounder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Smeal led the national abortion rights march in 1986 that drew more than 100,000 demonstrators to Washington, D.C. She visited our offices in November during a stop on the "Never Go Back" tour. It will travel to college campuses, women's health clinics, and community groups in Nevada, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, South Dakota, and West Virginia. The Feminist Majority is also hosting a student leadership conference January 22 to 23 in Washington, D.C.

Q: What is the support for abortion rights nationwide?

Smeal: Approximately 70 percent of the electorate are for keeping abortion legal. If you look at thirty years of polling, there's very little difference in the results. Our biggest opponent is not public support; our biggest opponent is that our majority does not think it can be taken away. They think this is modern life and that the pill will never be made illegal and abortion will never be made...