In World War II, the nature of combat changed significantly from the Great War, and so did the nature of post-traumatic stress disorder. Foxholes were used rather than the trenches of the First World War.
Supreme Court legalizes abortion. In a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Roe v. Wade that women, as part of their constitutional right to privacy, can terminate a pregnancy during its first two trimesters.
1971 - The case is filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane ROE against Henry WADE, the district attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987, who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion, except to save a woman's life.