White women had to give the child to couples who were married, called names and humiliated by family. Black women had family and people within the community to help them with the child but it was not always good. Black women who were not married and pregnant were blamed because of how many babies they were birthing. White women were not treated like black women, even though they produced closely to or even more babies than black women. Black women had also been told the child or children were the cause of America's problems and burden on white taxpayers. Black women faced many challenges when it comes to becoming pregnant and unmarried such as jail time, sterilization, and removal from welfare (Solinger). .
In 1973, the Supreme Court decision of Roe v Wade has changed women life's it protected women from illegal abortion procedures even though it was performed by skilled practitioners. Women won the right to control their pregnancy, to be a mother, and to legally have an abortion. Also in 1960 the approval of birth control was also a huge change in women life for controlling reproduction (Solinger). .
Today, women still face challenges in regards to an abortion. In Texas anti-abortion groups are making it hard to get an abortion because they are closing clinics in areas that are convenient to women by getting supports to be against abortion clinics (Eckholm, 2014). They are back-peddling and making it how it was before the Roe v. wade decision in 1973 trying to make females go back to getting illegal abortions. The same laws banning abortions in pregnancy also was passed in North Dakota and Arkansas. The ban of early pregnancy is violating constitutional doctrine in nine states. "In 2013 alone, 22 states adopted 70 different restrictions, including late abortion bans, doctor and clinics regulations, limits on medication abortions, and bans on insurance coverage, according to an new report by the Guttmacher Institute, a new research group that supports abortion rights" ( Eckholm, 2014).