Abortion and the Feminization of Poverty - David C. Reardon. They view unplanned children as the cause of lost education and career opportunities. Abortion, they claim, enables women to control their lives, pursue their dreams, and ultimately improve their socio-economic status. But this argument presupposes that the birth of an unplanned child has a negative effect on women's lives and that abortion has a positive, or at least neutral, effect.
Recent evidence shows otherwise.
Thomas Strahan, a researcher with the Association of Interdisciplinary Research, recently reviewed over 26 studies relating to abortion's impact on the socio-economic status of women. This will in turn effect their ability to function in the workplace and may inhibit their ability to enter into meaningful relationships. Women who have had abortions are more likely to become pregnant again and undergo additional abortions. Instead, post-abortion women often seek replacement pregnancies to make up for the aborted child, but find themselves faced with the same social pressures which led to the first abortion. Compared to their peers, teenagers who have had one abortion are 4 times more likely to have a subsequent abortion.