State abortion restrictions are challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court, and the right to choose is affirmed.
Date: 1986
In the case of Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Pennsylvania healthcare providers challenge their state's abortion restrictions, leading to a "resounding affirmation of a woman’s constitutional right to choose abortion" (Association for Wholistic Maternal and Newborn Health, 2017).