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.
[27] In Maher v. Roe, 150 the Court referred only indirectly to âa fundamental rightâ but then proceeded to hold that âthe District Court misconceived the nature and scope of the fundamental right recognized in Roe ,â 151 and overturned the overreaching district court that had applied the strict scrutiny standard.