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Article: Journal Offers Survey Results from 27 Nations.
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Why do women have abortions? Although abortion has been legal nationwide in the U.S. since 1973 and even earlier in other nations, not a lot is known about the reasons women in some of these other countries have abortions.
A report in the August 1998 issue of International Family Planning Perspectives1 examined the reasons women around the world have abortions. While the data are limited, they confirm what a survey of American abortion patients found in the late 1980s: that the vast majority are performed for social, not medical reasons.
Authors Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, and Taylor Haas analyzed data from 32 different studies gathered from 27 ...