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Abortion stigma may cause psychological distress in women who are considering having an abortion or have had one. This phenomenon has been relatively underexplored in low‐income women, who may already be at an increased risk for poor abortion‐related outcomes because of difficulties accessing timely and safe abortion services.

A qualitative study conducted between 2010 and 2013 used semistructured interviews to explore pregnancy intentions among low‐income women recruited from six reproductive health clinics in Western Pennsylvania. Transcripts from interviews with 19 participants who were planning to terminate a pregnancy or had had an abortion in the last two weeks were examined through content analysis to identify the range of attitudes they encountered that could contribute to or reflect abortion stigma, the sources of these attitudes and women's responses to them …