Many women ran away and went into hiding to escape the authorities. Stories of pregnant fugitives were aplenty – some successful, many not. My mother told me of a woman she knew who fled to the mountains to try to keep her second baby. She was discovered in the later stages of pregnancy and was forced to have an abortion. The induced still-birth that followed, a horrific process where the body expels the dead foetus, resulted in a full-formed child that already bore a full head of black hair.