TV’s Romper Room Hostess, Sherri Finkbine, Travels to Sweden to Terminate a Pregnancy Affected by Thalidomide

Americans’ opposition to abortion softens when TV’s Romper Room hostess, Sherri Finkbine, and her husband Robert (already parents of four young children) travel to Sweden to terminate a pregnancy affected by thalidomide, a drug with known severe risks to fetuses – and for which US abortion law does not provide an exception for at the time. Later that year, a Gallup poll will demonstrate that more than half of Americans feel she and her husband did the right thing.