Growing up in a world without legal abortion and no contraceptives.

[kskiska]

29. I'm a year older than you and I lived in Connecticut where contraceptives were illegal.

Of course, they could be obtained, but teenagers took chances, in parked cars at the local beach (known as watching the "submarine races". Like you, I remember girls quitting high school and getting married or just disappearing. Some were spirited away upstate to Hartford to the Catholic Home for Unwed Mothers, where they left without a baby after signing away their rights under extreme pressure. It's insane to think that in this day and age we're looking to return to that nightmarish era.