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.............ILLEGAL ABORTIONS WERE COMMON
Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. One analysis, extrapolating from data from North Carolina, concluded that an estimated 829,000 illegal or self-induced abortions occurred in 1967.
https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2003/03/lessons-roe-will-past-be-prologue
Don't forget that the population in the 50s and 60s were a lot less than now.
And of course during the same period there were a hell of a lot of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, which the women were sent to "shame houses" to give birth and put the kids of for adoption. Post WWII there was an unusual amount of sterile couples who wanted to adopt. Same in Europe. By 2003 only 14,000 babies were put up for adoption and the rate seems to keep going down. A lot of women don't like placing kids in places that have no control over their well-being.