WASHINGTON Inside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, justices seemed to wonder why they were hearing a case about blocking distribution of medication abortion.

Outside the court, plenty of others were wondering how they ended up here again, on the steps of the court, fighting to protect womens reproductive rights. Again.

Im 70 years old and we were talking about this when I was in college, and thats insane to me. That, you know, 50 years later we are still fighting this fight, said Jane Amgarola, a retired educator from Washington, D.C.

Its getting, you know, closer and closer to Handmaids Tale, she added.

Susan, an 85-year-old woman from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, said shes been fighting for womens and civil rights for decades, and Tuesdays protest at the court felt like yet another round. She was even at the 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr.

Only one thing feels different from that day, said Susan, who asked to go by her first name.

Its colder now, she said.