• First abortion regulation enacted

  • Abortion is classified a felony in 49 states

  • President Kennedy creates the Presidential Advisory Council on the Status of Women and calls for the repeal of abortion laws

  • Dr. Jane Hodgson is convicted in Minnesota for performing an abortion on a 23 year-old woman

  • Period: to

    Roe v. Wade

  • Congress passes the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)

  • “partial-birth abortion” is ruled unconstitutional

  • Supreme Court effectively reverses its 2000 ruling on “partial-birth abortion”