Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. How do women decide it is the right thing to do, not just for themselves, but also for the unborn child and their other children?
Women don't have a lot of places where they can talk about their abortion reasons—or their feelings after seeking an abortion—without being judged. Even though abortion is the most common surgical procedure performed for women in the U. The decision to have an abortion is generally decided for many reasons. Most women usually cite several reasons for abortion.
Research collected from through asked women about the reasons for getting an abortion. Some listed multiple reasons for their decision. The reasons, and the percentage of women who gave each one, are:. This survey used open-ended questions rather than having women select from a checklist of researcher-generated reasons. Previous surveys that had a set of answers got many responses for these reasons:. It's also interesting to point out that most women cite two to four reasons for abortion, not just one.
A common perception is that abortion is done for convenience and as an easy way out. Abortion is a complicated and complex issue. Most women who are faced with this decision do not make it lightly. Most women of every age, race, income level, parity, and education who chose an abortion cite reasons having to do with concerns about responsibility to children and other dependents—as well as concern about the children they may have in the future.
Women say they base their decision mainly on their ability to remain financially stable as well as being able to care for the children they already have. Women who have had an abortion say it's not the easy way out.
It's a painful and difficult decision she makes in consideration of what is the right thing to do by the child. It's a decision that will be with her for the rest of her life. A common judgment about a woman with an unplanned pregnancy is that she was irresponsible and not using birth control. However, half of all unintended pregnancies occur while women are using birth control. Given this, when faced with the reality that their birth control failed , many women are conflicted over what to do.
For some, abortion is against her morality or religious beliefs, yet not for others. The public debate over abortion also makes the choice more complex. The decision to seek an abortion is multifaceted and usually heart-wrenching for the people involved. Research further establishes that women who chose abortion stress how they consciously examined the moral aspects of their abortion decision.
Though some women believed abortion was wrong and sinful, many of them and others, in general believed that carelessly having a child was sinful as well. Those women who become pregnant in college usually drop out and never finish earning their degree. This usually means that when born the child will not be able to live a normal life due to severe abnormalities. At the same time women who are going through a planned pregnancy may need to abort because having the baby could be fatal.
For example there are cases when diabetic women contract a condition known as hyperemesis gravidarum which causes uncontrollable vomiting which can lead to dehydration and malnourishment. Home About Us Testimonials. Furthermore, if the domestic gag rule takes effect, this will affect the range of choices for women without other health insurance.
This gag rule affects places such as Planned Parenthood, which provides many reproductive health services to women who cannot afford health insurance. Individually, the possible geographical and financial obstacles of receiving an abortion are difficult to deal with.
However, for some women, the issues may intersect. Take for example a woman who is financially struggling and must travel over 30 miles to reach the nearest clinic that performs abortions.
Not only must this woman travel a far distance to undergo the procedure, but she is also forced to worry about all the costs associated with it. First, there is the cost of the actual abortion. Then, there are the travel costs to get to the clinic and back home, whether it be gas money or public transportation fees. If she has children and does not want to bring them with her, there is the possible cost of childcare while absent. If her state has a mandatory waiting period, she is forced to pay these transportation and childcare fees a second time when going back to the clinic to get the procedure.
If she gets a medication abortion and requires a follow-up appointment a week later, she has to pay them a third time. On top of all of this, there is the cost of her time. The time it takes for her to travel the far distance, possibly multiple times, is time she could have spent at her job making the money she desperately needs. For women who are unable to get an abortion, the physical effect is obvious: pregnancy. If cannot abort the fetus inside of her, she is forced to continue the pregnancy, and carry the child inside of her until it is delivered.
According to a website powered by the American Academy of Family Physicians, being pregnant comes with many physical effects. These effects include, but are not limited to, tiredness, nausea, frequent urination, lightheadedness, heartburn, and vaginal discharge and bleeding Changes in Your Body During Pregnancy , Two of the largest, and most obvious, physical changes with pregnancy are belly and breast growth.
Breasts also physically change during pregnancy to allow a woman to breastfeed her child once born, as discussed earlier. One of the most common of these effects is the use of an episiotomy during childbirth.
One factor that may motivate a woman to seek an abortion is her current financial situation. While many women identify with these reasons, not all are able to receive the abortion they want. In these cases, the intense burden of financial instability becomes a possible reality, with the newly added cost of raising a child. While there is the option of giving the child up for adoption, that is not the right choice for every woman. One study published in looked at the socioeconomic outcomes of women who were denied wanted abortions compared to women who were able to get them.
These results are an example of how following through with an unintended pregnancy as a result of being unable to receive an abortion can have a negative sociological impact a woman, pushing them into severe financial struggle. As discussed earlier, when something deviates from the widely accepted social norms and stereotypes within society, it is stigmatized, creating further stereotypes. One of the generally accepted ideas about America is that it is a land full of equal opportunity for everyone.
This is especially true in the case of women who face financial struggles as a result of unintended pregnancy. One study aimed to further examine this social stigma, interviewing one hundred black single mothers who were getting assistance from public programs. The women were asked a variety of questions about being on welfare, such as why they were on it and their feelings surrounding it. The results of this study exemplify the severity of stigma and stereotypes within society.
One of the most well-known psychological effects of giving birth to a child is postpartum depression. Furthermore, women who give birth to a child resulting from an unintended pregnancy have a possible higher risk of developing postpartum depression compared to women who gave birth to a child that was planned and wanted.
One study in North Carolina analyzed a group of women who were 12 months postpartum for the possibility of depression. Although every individual is different, the possibility of developing postpartum depression is a real consequence that may affect women who give birth to a child. Postpartum depression has also been linked to further psychological, such as suicidal ideation and self-harm Coker et al. When looking at whether being unable to get an abortion has a psychological effect on women, it is important to note the intersectionality between sociology and psychology.
Social norms and stereotypes within society can cause people to become outcasted if they do not act in accordance. As discussed above, being impoverished and receiving help from government programs is stigmatized in American society.
In the study that examined one hundred black single mothers on welfare, over half of the participants admitted to sometimes being ashamed of their status. All of these feelings circle back to the socially normative belief in America that poor people do not work hard and accept government handouts, and that is why they are poor.
When comparing women who receive a wanted abortion to women who do not receive a wanted abortion, it is important to note that both may suffer from physical, sociological, and psychological effects.
A summary of the effects that were discussed can be found below. Abortion is an issue that has been relevant for over two hundred years. Before this, a fetus was not equivalated with a human life. Women who wished to abort their fetus were given certain drugs that would induce the process, and if those failed, a woman could visit a medical practitioner to remove the fetus.
Although abortions done before quickening were legal, they were not an entirely safe practice, and often ended in women dying. As a result, in the ss, states began passing various laws in an attempt to control the procedure, which included outlawing the abortion inducing drugs Connecticut, Missouri, and Illinois , the instruments used in the procedure Missouri , or the actual procedure itself Maine.
Within the late ss, the American Medical Association was founded and began a crusade against abortion, headed by Dr. Horatio Storer. This anti-abortion movement gained traction, and the social shift towards the nonacceptance of abortion began to reflect in state laws. Beginning in the s, states began passing legislation to criminalize the procedure of abortion and continued to do so throughout the early-to-mids. However, with much help from the feminist movements fighting for contraception, this was later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Griswold v.
Connecticut in married persons , and then Eisenstadt v. Baird in single persons. In , the Supreme Court struck down all state laws criminalizing abortion with the landmark case of Roe v. Wade , which made the procedure federally legal. Despite seeming like a victory for reproductive health, this federal ruling only set a legislative basis for states. Within their own borders, states are responsible for the abortion statutes, and can create certain barriers making it hard for women to obtain an abortion.
These state barriers are all federally legal under the ruling of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Wade ever gets overturned. On top of these state-by-state barriers, there are also federal barriers that prevent women easy access to an abortion. In , the Hyde Amendment was passed to prevent federal funds from being used by state Medicaid programs to help low-income people get abortions, and it is still in effect today.
Your circumstances are different, your reasoning is different, your journey is different, and your aftermath is different. All of the research in the world cannot predict how a woman is going to be affected by either receiving an abortion or being unable to receive an abortion.
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Abortion Outlawed: The Beginning of the End Although abortions done before quickening were legal, they were not entirely a safe practice. American Medical Association AMA and Horatio Storer Despite certain states passing laws prohibiting the sale of abortion inducing drugs, the nationwide business for them continued to grow. Anti-Abortion Laws Continue With much help from the American Medical Association, the anti-abortion movement gained traction in the nation. Griswold v.
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