Unplanned pregnancies rise among poor women (bad news)

[donsu]

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/2006/0505/p02s01-ussc.html

The rate is four times that of higher-income women, a new survey reports.


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But when broken down by income, disparities emerge: In 2001, US women living below the federal poverty line were four times as likely to have an unplanned pregnancy, five times as likely to have an unplanned birth, and more than three times as likely to have an abortion as women with income at least double the poverty line ($9,800). And these disparities are growing, reports the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research organization formerly affiliated with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In 1994, poor women were three times as likely as higher-income women to have an unplanned pregnancy.

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At a time when abortion remains a focus of social activists across the political spectrum, some have sought to find common ground in the effort to reduce the number of abortions. Preventing unwanted pregnancy means fewer abortions, they say. But the issue of contraception - especially among teens - can be just as controversial, and so little cooperation exists between the opposing camps.

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(good news from article is that teen preg. continues to lessen)

more and more newly poor every day

[azurnoir]

1. Thursday I was reading on a

righty blog an anti-abortion thread were the the posters were pointing out how if all the aborted babies were born we'd have our "excess" labour pool and would not have accecpt illegals for those purposes.

[dylan33]

2. Organized religion

could also make big bucks selling those babies. Calling it adoptions of course.

[donsu]

3. yes, considering sperm counts are down

nt