The US air force gave her a choice: your baby or your job
As a new culture war rages around abortion, scholars believe a 1970s case taken up by Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows the lengths the US government has gone to in the past to control women’s sexuality
- Listen to Susan Struck interviewed on WNYC’s On the Media
- Tell us: have you had to decide between pregnancy and your US military career?
It was the spring of 1970 and war was rampant in south-east Asia. Capt Susan Struck of the US air force was serving in Vietnam as a nurse.
She had asked to be sent.