• DOI:10.2307/2135792
Corpus ID: 25224865

Why do women have abortions?

@article{Torres1988WhyDW,
  title={Why do women have abortions?},
  author={A. Torres and J. Forrest},
  journal={Family planning perspectives},
  year={1988},
  volume={20 4},
  pages={
          169-76
        }
}

• A. Torres, J. Forrest
• Published 1988
• Medicine
• Family planning perspectives

Key ResultMost respondents to a survey of abortion patients in 1987 said that more than one factor had contributed to their decision to have an abortion; the mean number of reasons was nearly four. Three-quarters said that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities, about two-thirds said they could not afford to have a child and half said they did not want to be a single parent or had relationship problems.Expand

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