Understanding why women seek abortions in the US

MA Biggs, H Gould, DG Foster - BMC women's health, 2013 - Springer
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 …

Reasons US women have abortions: quantitative and qualitative perspectives

LB Finer, LF Frohwirth, LA Dauphinee… - … on sexual and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
CONTEXT: Understanding women's reasons for having abortions can inform public debate
and policy regarding abortion and unwanted pregnancy. Demographic changes over the …

Reasons why women have induced abortions: evidence from 27 countries

A Bankole, S Singh, T Haas - International family planning perspectives, 1998 - JSTOR
Context: The immediate explanation that women often give for seeking induced abortion is
that the pregnancy was unplanned or unwanted. However, the myriad social, economic and …

[HTML][HTML] Reasons why women have induced abortions: a synthesis of findings from 14 countries

S Chae, S Desai, M Crowell, G Sedgh - Contraception, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Many reasons inform women's reproductive decision-making. This paper aims to
present the reasons women give for obtaining induced abortions in 14 countries. Study …

Navigating social and institutional obstacles: low-income women seeking abortion

B Ostrach, M Cheyney - Qualitative health research, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Nearly half of all women in the United States will have at least one abortion during their
lifetime, and many will encounter economic, logistical, and/or social obstacles while …

The effect of abortion on having and achieving aspirational one-year plans

UD Upadhyay, MA Biggs, DG Foster - BMC women's health, 2015 - Springer
Background Women commonly report seeking abortion in order to achieve personal life
goals. Few studies have investigated whether an abortion enables women to achieve such …

[PDF][PDF] Socioeconomic outcomes of women who receive and women who are denied wanted abortions in the United States

DG Foster, MA Biggs, L Ralph… - … journal of public …, 2022 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To determine the socioeconomic consequences of receipt versus denial of
abortion. Methods. Women who presented for abortion just before or after the gestational …

An exploration of the dimensions of pregnancy intentions among women choosing to terminate pregnancy or to initiate prenatal care in New Orleans, Louisiana

JS Santelli, IS Speizer, A Avery… - American Journal of …, 2006 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We examined pregnancy decisionmaking among women seeking abortion or
prenatal care. Methods. Conventional measures of pregnancy intentions were compared …

Who seeks abortions at or after 20 weeks?

DG Foster, K Kimport - Perspectives on sexual and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Context Recent years have seen the introduction of state bills seeking to ban abortions after
20 weeks, but little empirical data exist on who is affected when such bans become law …

[引用][C] What the data says about abortion in the US

J Diamant, B Mohamed, R Leppert - 2024 - policycommons.net
The US abortion rate has generally declined since the 1980s, but there have been slight
upticks in the late 2010s and early 2020s.