Life after birth

Keeping the baby, unwillingly

There's a lot we don't know about women who have abortions and those who have sought abortions but failed to obtain them, says Diana Greene Foster, a demographer. According to an article in the New York Times Magazine, Foster is conducting an ongoing study intended to examine the lives of women denied abortions and their children by comparing them with similar women granted abortions. Most studies simply compare women who've had abortions with women who never sought an abortion in the first place.

Read it at The New York Times Magazine

June 12, 2013 11:35 AM