Comparison of Health, Development, Maternal Bonding, and Poverty Among Children Born After Denial of Abortion vs After Pregnancies Subsequent to an Abortion

2018121 citationsJournal Articlehybrid Open Access

Authors

Diana Greene Foster · University of California, San Francisco

M. Antonia Biggs · University of California, San Francisco

Sarah Raifman · University of California, San Francisco

Jessica D. Gipson · University of California, Los Angeles

Katrina Kimport · University of California, San Francisco

Corinne H. Rocca · University of California, San Francisco

Abstract

These findings suggest that access to abortion enables women to choose to have children at a time when they have more financial and emotional resources to devote to their children.

Topics & Keywords

Reproductive Health and Contraception Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: JAMA Pediatrics

Volume 172, Issue 11, pp. 1053-1053

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.1785

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