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Why Do Women Have Abortions?

By JivinJ on September 6, 2005 1:13 PM | 1 Comment

Planned Parenthood's research arm, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, has released a new study on the reasons why women have abortions. The last time they released a study like this was in 1987. When women were allowed to list multiple reasons for why they had an abortion, reasons like "Having a baby would dramatically change my life," "Can't afford a baby now," and "Don't want to be a single mother/having relationship problems" came out on top.

Other notable statistics:

6% of women said their parents wanted them to have an abortion
14% of women said their husband or partner wanted them to have an abortion
25% of women said that they didn't want people to know they had sex or were pregnant.

1 Comment

The Common Anglican | September 6, 2005 4:44 PM

And the other 55%?

I wonder out of the 45% that were polled, how many have nightmares, depression, or just plain regret it?

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