Economics and already having a child or children play a huge role in reproductive decisions
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The Ohio Department of Health last week released its Induced Abortion Report for 2022. Among its other revelations, it showed that racial disparities when it comes to deciding to end pregnancy are growing. That women have to juggle considerations of pregnancy, poverty and survival is hardly new. Those are major themes of Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel “Moll Flanders.”
Nearly 1 in 4 unmarried mothers lived in poverty, the same analysis said. And Black women were more than twice as likely as white women to live in poverty — 23% versus 9%. With the current Supreme Court last year overturning Roe, the number of women in financial distress who are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term seems likely to increase. That’s true because the states with the strictest abortion bans also tend to have the highest poverty rates — and because it’s expensive to travel out of state to get an abortion.
However, during the period the law was in force, horror stories emerged. They included a 10–year-old rape victim, cancer patients who needed to start chemo and women whose fetuses had fatal anomalies who couldn’t get abortions in Ohio.
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