According to a report released by the Guttmacher Institute yesterday, abortion rates in the U.S. have dropped in the past decade among almost every subgroup of women – except for the impoverished. From the years 2000 to 2008, low-income women accounted for 42.4 percent of abortions. The report attributes this exception to poverty and the country’s recent economic recession.
While abortion rates in the U.S. have dropped 8 percent for most groups, poor women saw a 17.5 percent increase.
According to authors of the report,
“…The ongoing economic recession may have made it harder for poor women to obtain contraceptive services, resulting in more unintended pregnancies. In addition, when confronted with an unintended pregnancy, women who might have felt equipped to support a child or another child in a more stable economic climate may have decided that they were unable to do so during a time of economic uncertainty.”
More at
Washington Independent;
Guttmacher reportHmm, what's the Religious Wrong reaction to this? Exploding heads and panic, or
Beavis and Butt-head snickering?