From the article: "In part, Struck v. Secretary of Defense is a military-specific story about the ongoing struggles of an institution governed by federal regulation that is geographically located within individual states and foreign countries, with their own sets of laws. That story also highlights the military’s continuing need to recruit and retain women (as well as men with wives and daughters) alongside its need to assign service members wherever and whenever they are needed.
But Struck’s case also speaks to broader issues facing all women who seek to balance career and reproductive choices within a shifting legal framework limiting their options. It is a story about how cases ostensibly about one issue—here, abortion—are entangled with other threads of meaning and consequence. Perhaps ironically, it was a woman who chose birth, in an institution that prohibited pregnancy but permitted abortion, who most clearly brought questions of women’s equality, reproduction, employment, and religion to the fore in 1970."