The Jan. 22, 1973, Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion set off a firestorm of protests that year, including this one outside of the Americana Hotel in New York, where the American Medical Association was meeting for a convention. People on both sides of the abortion debate participated in the June 25, 1973 demonstration. Months earlier, the high court, in a 7-2 ruling, stated that a woman had a constitutional right to privacy.