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.
About the Author: Frank Hopkins became involved in writing while earning his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland. He held the position of Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton in the 1970s, where he published numerous referred journal articles and a monograph on industrial location. He continued technical writing while working at the Department of Energy in the late 1970s and as a government and business development consultant since 1980. While at the Department of Energy he started the publication, Short-Term Energy Outlook, which is still published by DOE. He has managed or participated in writing numerous large winning proposals in response to Federal Government solicitations. Unplanned Choices is Frank's first published work of fiction. He lived in Queens and Long Island, New York while attending college in the 1960s, the location and time period of Unplanned Choices. Unplanned Choices is Frank's first published work of fiction. He is active in the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild, and the Eastern Shore Writers Association, where he participates in writers critique group for both organizations. He is a member of the Maryland Writers Association and the Delaware Writers Network. He writes a blog, http: //www.politicalsantaclausstories.com/ commenting on liberal and conservative contemporary political issues. Frank has a website http: //www.frankehopkins.com that displays his literary efforts. Frank currently lives in Ocean View, DE. In addition to writing he plays golf and tennis, skis, sails on the Chesapeake Bay, and enjoys the ocean and inland bays of southern Delaware.