ve Health Services is called a "watershed." That is because it "was a catalyst for grassroots mobilization of abortion rights advocates" (Tonn, 1996, p. 265). That means everybody on all sides of the issue had an opinion. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services was also a watershed in a second way.
following the Court's verdict on Webster, both sides shifted their tactical energies from courtrooms to legislatures and election campaigns at both state and national levels. Within a year of the ruling, some 350 abortion-related bills had been introduced across the nation (Tonn, 1996, pp. 265-6).
The second way of Webster being a watershed is important. That is because the second way connects to abortion "advocacy" and "discourse"--i.e., "debate" and "argument." The second way means that opinions were changed from political ideas into political actions. This means, in turn, that the abortion issue was an important social problem.
More Supreme Court cases also happened in the 1990s (Calabresi, 1996). Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Cas
...