|
Responses listed as
primary reason |
%
|
Social Reasons (given as primary reason) |
|
|
- Feels unready
for child/responsibility |
25% |
|
- Feels she
can't afford baby |
23% |
|
- Has all the
children she wants/Other family responsibilities |
19% |
|
- Relationship
problem/Single motherhood |
8% |
|
- Feels she
isn't mature enough |
7% |
|
- Interference
with education/career plans |
4% |
|
-
Parents/Partner wants abortion |
<1% |
|
- Other reasons |
<6.5% |
|
TOTAL: |
93%
(Approx.) |
"Hard Cases" (given as primary
reason) |
|
|
- Mother's
Health |
4% |
|
- Baby may have
health problem |
3% |
|
- Rape or Incest |
<0.5% |
|
|
TOTAL:
|
7%
(Approx.)
|
Poll Fact:
An April 2004 Zogby
poll found that 56% of Americans support legal abortion in only three or
fewer circumstances: when the pregnancy results from rape or incest or
when it threatens the life of the mother.
*Source:
Lawrence Finer, et. al, "Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative
and Qualitative Perspectives" Perspectives
on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 37 No. 3 (Sept.,
2005) p. 110.
