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Journal Offers Survey Results from 27 Nations.
Why do women have abortions? Although abortion has been legal nationwide in the U.S. since 1973 and even earlier in other nations, not a lot is known about the reasons women in some of these other countries have abortions.
A report in the August 1998 issue of International Family Planning Perspectives1 examined the reasons women around the world have abortions. While the data are limited, they confirm what a survey of American abortion patients found in the late 1980s: that the vast majority are performed for social, not medical reasons. Authors Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, and Taylor ...See the full content of this document
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