Abortion

Abortion About 43% of American women will have one (or occasionally more) abortions during their lifetime. Women\'s centers and hospitals perform more than a million abortions per year. Abortions are obviously in great demand. But why' Women have many reasons for not wanting to be pregnant, and thus to seek an abortion. Many are related to their age (most are under 25), their marital status (most are unmarried; many are separated from their spouse) or their economic status (many are poor): 1 The vast majority (probably in excess of 95%) of abortions are sought for personal, not medical reasons: She feels that she does not have the financial resources to bring up a child. She has a plan for her life (education, developing a career, etc.) that does not allow for having a child at the present time. She is pressured by the father or by her parents to have an abortion. She feels that she lacks the emotional and physical strength to go through another pregnancy and raise the child. She believes that raising an additional child would short-change her existing children. She is a student and/or without a partner; she feels that raising a child abortion, rate, abortions, pregnancy, child, fetus, time, women, woman, thus, puberty, pregnant, marriage, fetuses, feels, factors, decreases, unwanted, students, sex-education, seek, reasons, past, one, now, interval, increases, increase, dangerous, birth, between, been, become, age, wanting