Furthermore, they found that among the people who were denied abortions, 90 percent chose to raise the child rather than chose adoption.5 The same researchers at UCSF compared children born after their mothers were denied abortions to the next children born to women who received abortions. They found that children born to a parent who was denied an abortion were more likely to live in households in which there wasn’t enough money to pay for basic living expenses. Women, as discussed in the study, are also more likely to experience poor bonding with the child—feeling trapped as a mother,
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