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110 Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive HealthPublic discussion about abortion in the United States hasgenerally focused on policy: who should be allowed to haveabortions, and under what circumstances. Receiving less at-tention are the Women behind the statistics the millionwomen who obtain abortions each year1 and their reasonsfor having abortions. While a small proportion of womenwho have abortions do so because of health concerns or fetalanomalies, the large majority choose termination in responseto an unintended , unintended preg-nancy does not fully capture the Reasons and life circum-stances that lie behind a woman s decision to obtain an abor-tion. What personal, familial, social and economic factorslead to the decision to end a pregnancy?The research into Women s Reasons for having abor-tions has been limited. In a 1985 study of 500 Women inKansas, unreadiness to parent was the reason most oftengiven for having an abortion, followed by lack of financialresources and absence of a 1987, a survey of1,900 Women at large abortion providers across the coun-try found that Women s most common Reasons for havingan abortion were that having a baby would interfere withschool, work or other responsibilities, and that they couldnot afford a 1987, little research in this areahas been conducted in the United States, but studies donein Scandinavia and worldwide have found several recur-ring motivations: economic hardship, partner diffic
112 Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health accurate standard errors. We conducted all analyses using Stata version 8.2. All associations discussed were signifi-cant at p<.05 or less.
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