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I was in highschool in Rochester, NY in the 60's. College wasn't pushed for females back then. Most classes females took were geared toward clerical work: typing, shorthand, bookkeeping. The only languages offered were French and Latin. Having a baby out of wedlock back then had more of a stigma attached to it, but if a person really cared about making their life better, they didn't have to have an abortion to do it.

I was in college in the 60s, and agree with your post. But back then, we were taught that you can avoid abortion by taking an aspirin. You take it, place it between your knees, and hold it there until your date is over. LOL!!

"You take it, place it between your knees, and hold it there until your date is over. LOL!!"

LOL! Yeah, we were told that too. Abortions weren't legal then, and I can still remember when one of my classmates ended up pregnant and had to leave school. She was one of the brainy ones, so we were all surprised at what had happened. Back then the general notion was, only bad girls get pregnant, and even if you did have sex with your boyfriend, we were so naive, that we thought it could never happen to us. I know she gave the baby up for adoption because when I graduated from highschool, I went to work for the county's Child Welfare Department. I came across her old record one time in the closed cases. She was a very sweet girl, and I always hoped that she found happiness in her life.