Facts & Numbers

WHEN A WANTED ABORTION IS DENIED, studies show that women more often:

  • Report greater anxiety and stress, and lower self-esteem and life satisfaction

  • Face added economic hardships such as worse credit scores, more frequent bankruptcies and evictions, and poverty

  • Endure more conflict in spousal relationships, and stay with violent partners

  • Raise a child alone

  • Experience greater health problems, including child birth complications

  • The children born are also more likely to live in poverty and experience poor bonding with their mothers.

Black women are the most vulnerable group. They are more likely to die in pregnancy or experience maternal depression and anxiety, and less likely to receive treatment, than any other race group.

WHEN A WANTED ABORTION IS ALLOWED (and children are planned), studies show that women:

  • Experience better life trajectories than those who carry unintended pregnancies to term

  • Achieve their education and career goals more often

Equally important, planned children:

  • Experience improved educational and economic outcomes, in childhood and adulthood

*JAMA Psychiatry, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2017).

**The Turnaway Study, (ANSIRH, 2020)

***National Partnership for Women and Families

****Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 14, No. 27, 2006; Dagg, P. K., American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 148, No. 5, 1991).

And numerous other studies)

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