Public opinion Suppose there were a young teenager who found herself pregnant. She was a good kid who didn't deserve it-she'd been as careful as could be expected, but now she was faced with the prospect of having this baby. Her support system wasn't the best. Her fiance said that he'd leave her; he claimed the baby couldn't be his,as most men do. Her parents were real conservative; they wouldn't want a in the family. She didn't know what, if any, support she could expect from them. She might just have to have this baby alone in whatever place she could find shelter. She had little education and no job skills. Shouldn't girls like her-children, really--have access to an abortion? Why should she have to ruin her life over something that, by all rights, never should have happened to her?
And what if this happened about or aroung the 1960's . You couldn't do anything about it and you would have been looked at as a tramp or something that was not good. Back then you were stuck with the baby and thats how some people think.