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Is the Recession Causing More Abortions?
If it is, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
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To plunging home values and tanking stock prices, add another effect of the recession: a spike in abortions. Newspapers are reporting that more women are seeking to end their pregnancies because they can't afford to raise a child. Family planning clinics from Florida to Iowa to Denver have seen the number of abortions they perform rise by as much as 15 percent; this past January, Planned Parenthood of Illinois provided the highest number of abortions in its history. The National Network of Abortion Funds, which helps needy women pay for abortions, reports that calls to its national helpline have nearly quadrupled from a year ago. At the hotline for the National Abortion Federation, the phone has been "ringing off the hook" with calls from women in financial trouble, Vicki Saporta, the group's president, told a Reuters reporter.
Pro-life activists and commentators deplore this rise in abortions, of course-but they are especially agitated by the reason behind it. Women are choosing their own material comfort over the life of their unborn children, they say, a development that reveals the sorry state of our country's moral fiber. "Americans, coming off years of hedonism and credit card spending orgies, are now increasingly aborting their babies who were unfortunate enough to be conceived during this economic recession," Christian radio show host Ingrid Schlueter writes on her blog. "Gone is anything remotely related to the spirit of America past where difficulties were not solved by taking the coward's or murderer's way out, but by fulfilling one's duty and taking responsibility for loved ones, no matter how hard the challenge."
But this interpretation of the relationship between financial distress and the decision to have an abortion gets it wrong on several counts. No one wants her most intimate decisions to be driven by money. At the same time, opting not to have a child you can't afford to raise can be a realistic and responsible-if painful-choice, one often based on taking good care of the kids you already have. Nor is the intrusion of economic concerns on childbearing a phenomenon of this recession, or even of the loosening of sexual mores over the past half-century: historically, financial hardship has been an ever-present motivation for ending a pregnancy.
A report by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan research organization focused on sexual and reproductive health, demonstrates the persistence of economic concerns in women's decisions about whether to have a child. The study, titled "Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions," draws its results from a survey of 1,209 abortion patients, and in-depth interviews with 38 more. When asked why they were having an abortion, the second most common reason, given by almost three-quarters of the respondents, was that they "could not afford a baby now." The most common reason was that children would interfere with their education, work, or ability to care for dependents-concerns that are also largely economic in nature. (According to other Guttmacher research, 57 percent of U.S. women obtaining an abortion are economically disadvantaged, 61 percent have one or more children already, and 67 percent are unmarried.) The study was published in 2005-when the Dow was still riding high and the housing bubble seemed it would never pop.
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