Guttmacher: Abortion has become more concentrated among poor women
Submitted by Jen R on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 04:48
The US may be a nation of unimaginable wealth, but its poorest women and children are made to live in quite another country, one of constrained resources and alternatives. And here are some of the real-life results:
The proportion of abortion patients who were poor increased by almost 60%—from 27% in 2000 to 42% in 2008 [...].
The growing concentration of abortion among women with incomes below the federal poverty line likely reflects a combination of factors. Between 2000 and 2008, the proportion of women in the overall population who were poor increased by 25%. And a Guttmacher study published in the Fall of 2009 showed that the deep economic recession may also have played a role, as financial concerns led more women to want to delay childbearing or limit the number of children they have.
(Guttmacher Institute, Abortion Has Become More Concentrated Among Poor Women)
Not only are poor women less likely than more affluent women to be able to afford to raise a child without assistance, they are also less likely to be able to afford health care, including both prenatal/childbirth care and access to prescription contraception. One of the key reasons that women who use oral contraceptives sometimes miss pills (and are therefore more likely to become pregnant) is that they put off filling prescriptions for financial reasons.
We hope that the health care bill recently passed by Congress can help counteract these pressures on lower-income women.
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