More than 50 years later, Dr. Frank Boehm still remembers the desperate faces.
The mother in Wichita, Kansas, when Boehm confirmed her teenager’s pregnancy. Unmarried teen motherhood shamed the family. A week later, the mother brought her daughter back, bleeding from an incomplete abortion.
The Navy wives in Maryland, pregnant while their husbands were in Vietnam, and not with the husbands’ babies.