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.
The case pitted two accepted doctrines against one anotherthe individual's right to privacy and the compelling and overriding interest of a State. Roe v. Wade sought an extension of the right to privacy, which the Court explicitly recognized for the first time in the case Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965.