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Feeling Pressured Into an Abortion?
By David Reardon, PH.D
Studies show that an estimated 70 percent of all abortion patients fall into the category of high-risk patients because of the presence of coercive pressures and/or ambivalent feelings at the time of the abortion. This is especially true if others are pressuring them into abortion by threatening to withhold love or approval unless they "do the best thing for everyone" and abort.
The lack of emotional support to keep a pregnancy can also influence a woman's decision to choose abortion. Pressure from adverse circumstances such
as financial problems, being unmarried, social problems or health problems
also make a woman feel as if abortion as her "only choice."
Reluctance to have an abortion can put a woman at risk. The source of her doubts may result from either conflicting moral views about the abortion or from a conflicting desire to keep the baby.
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