“Pressure from boyfriends and husbands to abort was a problem familiar to abortion clinic counselors. In a 1987, a study by Planned Parenthood’s Alan Guttmacher Institute found that 23% of abortion patients said they were having the procedure in part because their husbands or boyfriends wanted it. Among eighteen and nineteen year olds women, that figure soared to nearly 30%.”
FPT August 1988 170
Read more about coerced abortions, and a more recent study that gave a 64% coercion rate here.
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