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Originally Posted by NJNative
Abortion was illegal until 1973... so if you were conceived before that, it was impossible to get a legal abortion anyway.
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Not true. Abortion was legal in a number of states way before 1973. The only thing that Roe v Wade did was legalize it on a federal level. Up until that time, it was up to each individual state whether abortion was allowed or not.
Here in California, Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act in 1967. All a woman or girl had to do to obtain an abortion in those years before Roe v Wade was to get a psychiatrist to sign a form, saying that the pregnancy would be detrimental to the woman's emotional health. I know this for a fact because my mother had a legal abortion in a hospital in 1969.
When I became pregnant in 1971, the first thing the OB/GYN asked me was if my parents were willing to sign the consent form for me to have an abortion. He turned red in the face with embarrassment when he realized that I didn't want an abortion...