作者
M Antonia Biggs, Heather Gould, Diana Greene Foster
发表日期
2013/12
期刊
BMC women's health
卷号
13
页码范围
1-13
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
The current political climate with regards to abortion in the US, along with the economic recession may be affecting women’s reasons for seeking abortion, warranting a new investigation into the reasons why women seek abortion.
Methods
Data for this study were drawn from baseline quantitative and qualitative data from the Turnaway Study, an ongoing, five-year, longitudinal study evaluating the health and socioeconomic consequences of receiving or being denied an abortion in the US. While the study has followed women for over two full years, it relies on the baseline data which were collected from 2008 through the end of 2010. The sample included 954 women from 30 abortion facilities across the US who responded to two open ended questions regarding the reasons why they wanted to terminate their pregnancy approximately one …
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MA Biggs, H Gould, DG Foster - BMC women's health, 2013