In 1955, the year most of the movie is set, abortion was illegal through the United States. It remained illegal in most states until Roe v. Wade in 1973 (see also the trivia for Dirty Dancing - Balli proibiti (1987)). In Connecticut, it was also illegal to buy or use any form of contraception, until Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965. One of Frank's work friends jokes that April's pregnancy was the result of a faulty prophylactic, but it would have been illegal for the Wheelers to use any form of birth control. Since Frank worked in New York, he could have brought birth control there, but its use in Connecticut still would have been illegal. In the book, April comments that she felt her diaphragm was loose the night they conceived, and that she had to go out the next day to buy a replacement.

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