He authored the Abortion Control Act of 1982, a law that includes, with some exceptions, "requirements that a married woman notify her husband, that there be a 24-hour wait before any abortion, and that doctors show patients a pamphlet with pictures of developing fetuses",[3][4] as well as another law to prevent suits against doctors for wrongful birth or wrongful life for not giving information about risk of fetal abnormalities.
[5] The Abortion Control Act was mostly upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States except for the spousal notification provision in the case of Planned Parenthood v.
[7] In 1984, a bill drafted by Freind was enacted into law that changed the way adults who were adopted as children access their original birth certificates.
Freind was convinced that denying adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates would lower abortion rates.
[10] In 1992 Freind gave up his state house seat to challenge Arlen Specter in the Republican U.S. Senate Primary.