Jane Roe's Daughter Outraged Over Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling

One of the daughters of the woman at the center of the original Roe v. Wade case said she was "devastated" by Friday's Supreme Court ruling, which she said has reversed "all that hard work and all the sacrificing" on her mother's part.

"I was in disbelief. I was devastated. I knew it was coming, but it was just it was too real, that it really happened and that they've taken us back 50 years from all the hard work and everything that women went through to get to where we are now," Melissa Mills, the eldest daughter of Norma McCorvey, said Monday on CNN's New Day program.

McCorvey, who was known as "Jane Roe" in the 1973 abortion case, had three children. Her last child was the "Roe baby," whom she gave birth to during the lengthy court proceedings surrounding the case. McCorvey gave birth to Mills as a teenager, and Mills was later adopted by her maternal grandmother.

On Monday, Mills told CNN her mother would have been just as devastated as she was over the Court's decision to overturn Roe, which established a constitutional right to an abortion.

"It's just hard to believe that now her grandkids are not gonna have the same rights as we've had for 50 years," Mills, a mother of two daughters, said. She added that she now has the same concerns her mother had nearly half a century ago.

"The same thing my mother worried about—you know, someone telling you what to do with your reproductive rights and someone having their hand on you telling you when and where and how you need to live your life," she said. "As a woman, we have to take care of ourselves...and that should be our decision, nobody else's. Nobody, especially not a man."

Republican states reacted quickly on Friday as soon as the Court's ruling was released, certifying trigger laws that ban abortions. As of Monday, abortions are now illegal in nine states, with more expected to follow suit in the next 30 days.

McCorvey was from Texas and gave birth to all three of her children there. The state's abortion ban is expected to go into effect July 24. Since September, Texas has had a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, which can be enforced through civil action.

Mills said the moves to ban abortions in her home state have been upsetting, given its place in U.S. history as the state where abortions were ruled in 1973 to be constitutionally protected.

"I just thought Texas would never do that," she said. "I just never thought Texas would be the one to go all the way backwards."

She went on, "My family...we've suffered over it, for Mom being a part of it. I was very proud of her for going through [with the case] and helping everyone. It wasn't just herself, she helped all women. It's devastating to know that all that hard work and all the sacrificing, we're right back to where we were 50 years ago."