How Good Relationships Stop Abortions Have you ever stopped to think about why abortions happen? A recent study from the Guttmacher institute gives us a glimpse into the minds of these women and it also shows how we can minister to them more effectively. In the study, the researchers found “The
decision to have an abortion is typically motivated by multiple, diverse and interrelated reasons. The themes of responsibility to others and resource limitations, such as financial constraints 14
and lack of partner support, recurred throughout the study.” If you break that statement down, you begin to see a common problem. In the first sentence, we see that the decision is “motivated by multiple, diverse, and interrelated reasons.” What the study found was that women will have an abortion for different reasons, but almost all of those reasons come down to one particular common thread that runs through all of their decisions – a bad relationship situation.
