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Article: Abortion Rate Increased Under N.J. `Family Cap'; Officials Uncertain of Significance Because of Early Stage of Welfare Restriction Program
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- May 17, 1995
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New Jersey welfare officials announced yesterday that the abortion
rate among poor women increased 3.6 percent in the eight months after
New Jersey last year barred additional payments to women on welfare
who gave birth to additional children, a development antiabortion
groups said they feared.
"We have seen a slight increase in the abortion rate at the same
time that we have seen a fairly significant decrease in the birth
rate to women on welfare," New Jersey Human Services Commissioner
William Waldman said in a statement. "What we don't know at this
point is what is causing these changes."
"This preliminary New Jersey data underscores our concern that
denying aid for children born to ...