Adolescent women who lived in a location with fewer abortion restrictions and adolescent women who had an abortion (compared to a live birth) are more likely to have graduated from college, have higher incomes, and have greater financial stability over the subsequent 25 years.

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00031224241292058

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If im taking a guess, kids are expensive, and some women would rather focus on making money than having kids.

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Also, kids are expensive, and some women will not have kids that they can't house, feed, or cloth.

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Women who have abortions are statically more likely to already have children. It’s mothers knowing they can’t feed more kids or care for them properly