Just as Kohlberg’s justice-based model of development claims different levels of moral maturity, so Gilligan assumed that there would be different perspectives within an ethic of care. Rather than relying on hypothetical dilemmas to spot different nuances in the feminine voice, she was determined to hear women speak about real-life moral struggles where they had the power to choose. She saw the 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion as creating a situation in which women would have to make a major choice on moral grounds.