Teenager finding out she's pregnant in 1966

[shanrina]

Setting: Baltimore, Maryland, US, 1966

Comments

[jamezilla1]

How find out she was pregnant; well for the straight facts, yes go to PP, but back then your friends would have played a bigger role in tipping you off. People were closer and talked about more stuff

[duckodeath]

1966 is seven years before Roe vs. Wade. Abortion (as such) would be a complete non-starter.

In 1966, contraception in and of itself was still controversial. It had only been the previous year that the Supreme Court affirmed the right of married women to have access to birth control and it wouldn't be until 1972 (the year before Roe vs. Wade) that the same right would be extended to unmarried women.

[jamezilla1]

See there are some misconceptions (conception -- ha!) about the Roe v. Wade debate vs. abortion legality

[chomiji]

Haha ... yes, that's us Marylanders: smutty and permissive!

XD

[houseboatonstyx]

In Texas around 1963-4 there was no problem with an unmarried college girl getting a prescription for 'the pill' from at least some regular doctors.

[shanrina]

Thanks. I think it'll be an older family member, maybe a cousin or an aunt, who clues her in. She doesn't wind up getting an abortion, though--she keeps the baby and marries the father.