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| Lorraine |
How many of us got pregnant during the years when mores were changing in fact but not in public acceptance--the years after World War 2 and before abortion became legal? When I read about the various states--North Dakota, Texas, Missouri, to name a few--which are making abortion increasingly difficult and expensive, I am reminded of the time back when...I got pregnant. This is a excerpt from my memoir, hole in my heart:
While I felt completely alone in my catastrophe, I actually
had a lot of company. We women who got pregnant when we weren't supposed to in
the Fifties, Sixties and early Seventies were trapped in the transition era
that has come to be known as the Baby Scoop Era, a period that began after
World War II and continued on through the Seventies. [1]
