The jist, women who wanted an abortion, but who were turned away from clinics experienced much higher rates of intimate partner violence than those who were able to get an abortion. This is quoted from the Salon.com article, posted below:
"Demographer Diana Greene Foster studies the effects of unintended pregnancy on women’s lives. Foster and a team of researchers have spent years interviewing women who were able to terminate their pregnancies close to the cut-off date, usually around 20 weeks, to demographically similar women who wanted an abortion but — often because their pregnancies exceeded gestational limits for the procedure — were turned away by clinics. (This is a reality that more women will be forced to confront as state legislatures continue to pass laws designed to shutter clinics and place time, economic and geographical barriers between women and basic medical care.)"See the remainder of the article below:
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/29/study_on_reproductive_rights_and_domestic_violence_being_denied
_an_abortion_tethered_women_to_violent_men/
"Demographer Diana Greene Foster studies the effects of unintended pregnancy on women’s lives. Foster and a team of researchers have spent years interviewing women who were able to terminate their pregnancies close to the cut-off date, usually around 20 weeks, to demographically similar women who wanted an abortion but — often because their pregnancies exceeded gestational limits for the procedure — were turned away by clinics. (This is a reality that more women will be forced to confront as state legislatures continue to pass laws designed to shutter clinics and place time, economic and geographical barriers between women and basic medical care.)"See the remainder of the article below:
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/29/study_on_reproductive_rights_and_domestic_violence_being_denied
_an_abortion_tethered_women_to_violent_men/
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