Then, a year into the job, Susan became pregnant. The following year, Susan and Frank separated. The abortion made her sad, but with the marriage falling apart , she felt that their lives were too much in flux for another child.
Franz lives part of the week with her and part of the week with his father, now a designer and an art teacher. There was a little bit of guilt. I could have this baby and be fine. At the time, she was working as a doula, helping women prepare for birth and coaching them through labor. After taking the pregnancy test , she met her husband for lunch to break the news.
However, Virginia surprised herself when she cried so much at the Planned Parenthood clinic that the staff thought that perhaps she was there unwillingly. Today, Virginia works in a sexual-assault prevention program on a college campus, and her daughter is getting ready to begin high school. The Bay Area is expensive, even with two professional incomes, but with one child, Virginia and her husband lead the rich life she always envisioned, with enough money for private school, overseas vacations, and saving for college.
Together, they made enough to save for the future, with money left for dinners out and relaxing weekends at home.
The boys, she says, were close, spending hours together as teenagers, in their room playing video games or out in the neighborhood riding skateboards or hanging out with friends. Then Lena became pregnant. At first, she thought she had the flu. Within weeks of the abortion, Lena was laid off. The couple began arguing over money. Eventually, she and her boyfriend split up. Ruby was 17, a rising high-school senior, when she found out that she was pregnant.
At first she considered having the baby and going off to college, infant in tow. Once settled into college life , at UNC Chapel Hill, Ruby came to see how impossible it would have been for her to raise a baby in a dorm room. At 18, she was busy with her studies and with student activism.
After graduation, she worked for a series of nonprofit organizations—including Planned Parenthood —developing websites and later social-media strategy. At 35, Ruby married a fellow Web developer, in large part because they knew they wanted a child. Her son, Izzy, was born three years later. Federal statistics do not include California, the most populous state, because its government does not provide data.
But Guttmacher researchers surveyed abortion providers there as well as in other states to produce the latest national estimate of 1. Though abortion is commonplace across the country, urban areas have far higher rates than rural areas where access to abortion providers can be difficult. New York, New Jersey, California, Delaware, Nevada, Maryland and Florida had the highest abortion rates in , according to the new Guttmacher report released this week.
Wyoming, Idaho, Kentucky, South Dakota and Mississippi had the lowest rates — the latter two states have just a single abortion clinic in operation. According to Guttmacher data, the abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty level is more than four times higher that among women from middle-income and affluent households.
An increasing number of women avoid surgery by using the RU abortion pill or other early medication — these now account for about 13 percent of all abortions. Of all U. Of those over 20, the majority have attended college. Almost a third have been married at some point.
About 60 percent have at least one child; one-third have two or more. It is not. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Politics Covid U. Similarly, women of all religious affiliations choose to end their pregnancies. Most of these women understand what it means to parent a child. More than half of abortion patients in were already mothers.
Poor women account for the majority of abortion patients. Fifty-three percent of women pay out-of-pocket for their abortion. The rest use private or state-funded insurance plans. Women choose abortion for multiple reasons. The most common reason cited is that pregnancy would interfere with education, work or ability to care of dependents. Seventy-three percent of women reported that they could not afford a baby at the time.
Nearly half cited relationship difficulties or wanting to avoid single motherhood. More than a third of women felt their families were complete. Twelve percent chose abortion due to their own health problems. For example, one of my patients and her husband were thrilled to find out she was pregnant for the first time. Then she received the diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer.
She had to choose between lifesaving chemotherapy and radiation or her pregnancy. Nine in 10 women who receive abortions undergo abortion in the first trimester. Only 1.
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