Reading the account of Captain Susan Struck’s case, vibrantly told by Neil S. Siegel and Reva B. Siegel, brought me back to the summer of 1972. ACLU Legal Office staff counsel Joel M. Gora and I spent many hours in June and July of that year preparing a petition for certiorari, one we hoped would engage the Court’s attention. In the preceding year, the ACLU had taken on, along with Struck, several other cases challenging the rule, then maintained by all the Armed Forces, requiring pregnant service members to choose between abortion and ouster from the military. But Captain Struck’s case was our frontrunner.