Gender

What Women Do When They Can't Afford An Abortion

by The Daily Eye Team October 24 2016, 5:42 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 42 secs

When Ariana Menefee found out that she was pregnant seven years ago, she knew immediately that she needed an abortion. "My pregnancy was a surprise. I had no intention of having children at the time," she told me over the phone from her home in Bedford Heights, Ohio.

At that point, she was homeless and putting herself through college; in addition, the person who got her pregnant was, in so many words, not someone with whom she wanted to parent. She was in the process of getting her life back on track—carrying a pregnancy for nine months, giving birth, and then taking care of a baby was not something she could reasonably do while she was living in a shelter, working toward her degree, and already raising two kids. Her decision was easy.

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