An e-mail from a lawyer in Indiana:

K-Lo,
Having likely started my own life under similar circumstances to Emmie’s baby, her story is just unbelievably tragic. Like many conceived under such circumstances in the pre-Roe era, I was placed for adoption. Emmie could have done that, given a good life to her baby, and still tried for her “perfectly planned” child later. Thank God that my birth mother didn’t have the kind of “support network” Emmie did.