Women who have multiple abortions present challenges to pro-life efforts
Almost half of all the women who abort each year have had prior abortions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Guttmacher Institute. This percentage hasn’t budged much for the last 20 years—and those repeat abortions are a huge challenge for the pro-life movement.
Cassi Pavlo knows that firsthand. She’s now pro-life and the director of patient resources at the Rockville Women’s Center in Maryland, but she had an abortion when she was 16 and two more abortions during the next four years.
You might assume she wasn’t using birth control, but 44 percent of women who abort were using contraception the month they became pregnant, according to a Guttmacher report published last year—and Pavlo was one of them....
Dr. Mark Allison | 1/20/2013
