what happened to their way of life by 1973
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that states laws which made it illegal for a woman to have an abortion up to three months of pregnancy were unconstitutional, and that the decision on whether a woman should have an abortion up to three months of pregnancy should be left to the woman and her doctor to decide. R. v. Morgentaler, Canada's equivalent Supreme Court decision effectively legalizing all abortions (while the Mogentaler case does refer to Roe v. Wade, most of the court's findings are more similar to the findings in Doe v. 2  Bolton).