d Denmark enter European Economic Community. The growth of European integration in the last generation has generally been seen as a stabilizing and liberating influence on that continent, and the commitment of Great Britain to the process was key to its success (Rosamond 40).
In January the U.S. Supreme Court would make a ruling in one of the most important legal cases of the 20th century, deciding in Roe v. Wade that women were protected by the implied Constitutional right to privacy to have abortions legally and safely provided to them. The decision changed both the status of women and the nature of the American political debate forever. The ruling overturned a Texas law, but it applied to all American women:
In 1970, Norma McCorvey assumed the pseudonym Jane Roe and was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit challenging anti-abortion laws in Te
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