This response will detail my answer to the prompt: “What are the most common reasons pregnant women indicate they seek abortions? Given these reasons, are there ways that society could provide these women with more choices that might simultaneously reduce the frequency of abortion?”.
The factsheet concerning induced abortion in the United States, constructed by the Guttmacher Institution, details several points about trends in abortion, providers and services of abortion, the safety of abortion, insurance and payment methods, and law and policies surrounding abortion, based on statistics from 2011 and 2014. The factsheet states that the three most common reasons pregnant women indicate they seek abortions are: 1) they are concerned for the responsibility to other individuals, 2) they are unable to afford raising a
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Among the three-fourths of patients that share the three previous concerns, half of the women also indicated they did not want to be a single parent or were currently having issues with their husband or partner.
I believe that, given these reasons, there are ways that society can simultaneously provide these women with more choices and reduce the frequency of abortions. Realistically, all of the following concerns that women detail having are valid. Children are a big responsibility, children are expensive to raise, and children will require a lot of attention. To combat these concerns, as a society, we can make changes towards how we see sex and start at the root of the problem by increasing sex education in schools and educating about birth control options and contraceptives early on. From there, we can agree that money troubles contribute to a large