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The Girls Who Went Away

In the decades before the Roe v. Wade ruling, more than a million young women were pressured by family, friends and social forces to surrender their unplanned babies to adoption.  Ann Fessler -- an author, artist, and adoptee -- has spent much of her life collecting the fascinating stories of these birth mothers while sorting out her own feelings about adoption.  Her work is on display now at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

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