Why We Need a Policy Change (Part I)

The Pregnant Women Support Act (2009) is “a bill to provide programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents” (http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s270/show). This bill has the potential to impact women and their families in many ways. One way would be:

1) To decrease the number of abortions seen every year in the United States.

4 out of 10 unintended pregnancies end in an elective abortion.

22% of all pregnancies end in abortion.

The abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty ($9,570 for a single woman with no children) is more than 4 times taht of women above 300% the poverty level.

Info from: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html