“We all understand — if we’re parents, or know anybody who’s a parent, or are paying any attention to parents — the ways in which having children impacts the economic lives of families,” says Caitlin Myers, an economist at Middlebury College. “For women in particular, it’s the single biggest economic decision most of them will make in their lifetimes.”
Most women who seek an abortion are already low-income. Research shows that when these women are blocked from ending their pregnancy, they wind up worse off.
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