Or of course if she knew she couldn't afford a child at that time, and felt pretty sure that the father wasn't going to marry her or support the baby, then she could have just not had sex with the guy in the first place. But then I guess that would have impinged on her right to engage in irresponsible, unprotected sex wouldn't it. Better just to take the chance knowing that you can always just flush the baby down the toilet. No harm, no foul so to speak.
This story doesn't pass the smell test: white girl/black guy, bi-racial baby, no one would adopt the baby because of the heritage, fighting her way through protester, strict Catholic upbringing(racist intolerant parents no doubt), wonderful understanding female doctors. Did she miss anything? Having grown up Catholic I know that most Catholics her mothers assumed age are intensely anit-abortion and would have gladly raised the child as their own rather than having their daughter commit an abortion. I wonder if NARAL passed out the scripts before the seminar?
If she went to a legal clinic with real protester then this had to have happened circa 1973 or later. Trust me I am speaking from personal experience.
Do you really think that her family would have wanted to raise a half-black grandchild in 1973? Catholic or not, keep in mind that back then many people strongly disapproved of interracial marriages/biracial children and would disown their family members if they married or had children by someone of another race.
It has always amazed me that men have arranged for women to accept abortion as a woman's right thing rather than a man's irresponsibility thing. At one time a woman would not have had sex with a man who didn't love her enough to marry her and raise children with her. Now, she will do so and claim it as a constitutional right! She can sleep with anyone no matter what he thinks of her.
When I was young I was told what I thought was an appalling joke. A woman is bag ugly if you have to put a bag over her head before you will sleep with her. She's double-bag ugly if you have to put a bag over your head in case her bag falls off. And she's coyote ugly if, upon waking up and finding her asleep on your arm, you'd chew your arm off before taking a chance of waking her up. I hated the joke because of what it made the woman out to be.
But they seem to want to make themselves out to be that very thing.
Shalom.