Also probably feared that her parents would yank her out of college if they found out. And I think we need to keep in mind how difficult information was to come by in the pre-Internet age. I wouldn't believe any college student today who said she could find an adoption agency willing to take a biracial baby off her hands (though she'd still have trouble finding one that could guarantee it would be promptly adopted), but 30-35 years ago, if you couldn't find something you needed in the yellow pages, you were out of options. In this woman's case, it appears that what she needed was an agency who would take her biracial baby immediately after its birth, without her parents ever finding out she'd been pregnant. That's why I don't find anything unbelievable about her story. Sure, she COULD be lying, but if she is, there are still plenty of women who werein her situation in that era who DID have the experience she described. Nobody here has any basis to be branding her a "liar".
This was patently untrue. Any person raised in a devoutly Catholic family would have known today, 35 years ago, or 200 years ago that she could turn to a local parish priest for help without judgement. And if she were ashamed to approach one she knew, there would be others available. As important as it seems to be for you to prove otherwise, this woman is lying about something.
So this alleged "need" for legal abortion no longer exists.