While most women in all groups had positive one-year plans, fewer than half of the goals were achieved within one year. In other words, many women overestimated what they could achieve in one year.
This study has several limitations. First, the Turnaway study is limited to fewer than one thousand women and many women who were invited to participate declined. Additionally, due to sample size limitations, the analysis was unable to determine achievement by specific theme of the goal. Another limitation is that the analysis was unable to evaluate whether all goals were met and for some goals, measurement may have been imprecise, for example, the timing of residential moves.
Future studies should attempt to assess personal goals before unintended pregnancy to further understand the effect of abortion on life course outcomes. This study demonstrates that women who receive a wanted abortion are better able to aspire for the future than women who are denied a wanted abortion and must carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. Support for a woman to have access to abortion is often based on a belief that when faced with an unintended pregnancy, women who have an abortion have better life course trajectories than women who carry their unintended pregnancies to term.
There is a belief that access to abortion is important for equal opportunities for women and for their financial stability [ 7 ]. These findings provide evidence to support this premise. Women seek abortion for a range of reasons tied to their individual life circumstances and stage of life and oftentimes for the profound effects they perceive that having a baby would have on their life plans.
Our analysis is unique because it allowed women to express their life plan in their own words. This study shows that abortion enables women to aspire for a better life in the future and achieve these goals.
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We know, from the history of pre- Roe America and the imprisonment of women in other right-wing governments, that women will suffer. Some will die, from pregnancy complications or from the back-alley abortions that many, the poor especially, will inevitably seek.
Whether an abortion ban criminally penalizes women or not, the outcome punishes them all the same. But they do weigh the suffering of women against the prospective life of the fetus, and favor the fetus in the end. To abortion opponents, the potential person seems to be the one true innocent in the world.
The woman carrying it, though, is a different matter altogether. She can make mistakes. Maybe she skipped her pill. Maybe she was young, unmarried, and sexually active when churches would rather she be abstinent. Mistakes have consequences. I could have gotten pregnant, and I think that would have killed me. I was a year-old student at a Christian university that expelled students for having sex outside the holy bonds of hetero matrimony.
I think of the people I knew then, and how so many of them would have told me to carry a baby to term even if it destroyed me. Mene, mene, tekel upharsin.
God numbered you and found you wanting, and will bring you to an end. Pregnancy would have been a punishment, not a miracle. Nothing I lived through will convince an Alabama Republican to change his mind. There is only one just and moral response to the anti-abortion movement, and that is to strike down its arguments in their entirety.
A fetus is a possibility, not a person. It disrupts her employment. And it often disrupts her entire family life. And we feel that, because of the impact on the woman, this … is a matter which is of such fundamental and basic concern to the woman involved that she should be allowed to make the choice as to whether to continue or to terminate her pregnancy. If abortion rights are denied, then a constraint is imposed on women's freedom to act in a way that is of great importance to them, both for its own sake and for the sake of their achievement of equality;.
Many people regard the right to control one's own body as a key moral right. If women are not allowed to abort an unwanted foetus they are deprived of this right. The important US Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade to some extent supported that view when it ruled that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters and was protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.
This leads some people to claim is that it is unethical to ban abortion because doing so denies freedom of choice to women and forces 'the unwilling to bear the unwanted'. Opponents of this argument usually attack the idea that a foetus is 'part' of a woman's body. They argue that a foetus is not the same sort of thing as a leg or a liver: it is not just a part of a woman's body, but is to some extent a separate ' person ' with its own right to life.
A second objection to this argument is that people do not have the complete right to control their bodies. All people are subject to various restrictions on what they do with their bodies - and some of these restrictions laws against suicide or euthanasia are just as invasive. They say that if a woman is not allowed to have an abortion she is not only forced to continue the pregnancy to birth but also expected by society to support and look after the resulting child for many years to come unless she can get someone else to do so.
They argue that only if women have the right to choose whether or not to have children can they achieve equality with men: men don't get pregnant, and so aren't restricted in the same way. Furthermore, they say, women's freedom and life choices are limited by bearing children, and the stereotypes, social customs, and oppressive duties that went with it.
They also regard the right to control one's own body as a key moral right, and one that women could only achieve if they had were entitled to abort an unwanted foetus. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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