Unplanned Choices

What Will Happen if Abortion is Outlawed? Texas recently passed a law doing that. The Supreme Court has twice refused to declare this law unconstitutional. No one under sixty will know or can remember when abortion was illegal in the US. Women who lived before the Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973 suffered from the fear of an unwanted pregnancy and suffered injury or death from a botched illegal abortion. Unplanned Choices tells the story of what happened to one couple during this era. Situations similar to that portrayed in Unplanned Choices, could be replicated hundreds of thousands of times in the future if abortion becomes illegal or is severely restricted in the United States. Unplanned Choices, a coming-of-age historical drama, set in the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City and Long Island during the turbulent period of the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, the Civil Rights struggle, the women's movement, and the quest for legalizing abortion. The novel is the story of Steve Lynch and his first love Anna Marino. Both Anna and Steve are raised in the Roman Catholic faith and struggle with the church's prohibition of sexual activity and their growing sexual drives. They both meet in college after abandoning the church's restrictions. Anna became pregnant and dies during an abortion, before abortion on demand became legal in New York. The novel describes the impact of the abortion on Steve, the abortionist, Anna's family and friends, and one NYPD investigators who was too close to the case.