The U.S. Supreme Court this month is set to unravel 50 years of hard-won rights for women. By Ann S. Freed, Younghee Overly, Anna Ezzy | Honolulu Civil Beat On March 13, 1970, Hawaii became the first state to legalize abortions essentially at the request of the patient. Not only was Hawaii’s abortion law effective in Hawaii, other states followed suit in decriminalizing abortion. After learning of the horrors women suffer during illegal abortions, the AAUW of Hawaii board vot