According to one pro-choice author:
“Among medical professionals and social workers, teenagers are perhaps most likely to encounter people with more liberal views about abortion, and to find themselves on the defensive if they are determined to continue their pregnancies… pregnant women whose cultures or circumstances do not fit… are disapproved of as candidates for motherhood. Tacit disapproval sometimes becomes vocal — urging the woman towards abortion and, if she insists on keeping the pregnancy, castigating her for her “irrational” selfishness…Black teenagers, in particular, are singled out by the medical and social work profession as “problem parents”… outright coercion or bullying is hard to prove, but, undoubtedly, young mothers, poor mothers, and above all poor young black mothers are being hustled towards abortion with no respect for their “right to choose.”
Janet Hadley “Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity” (Great Britain: Virago Press) 1996 p 104, 106
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