'These are the struggles that women will be going through as they're forced to carry a pregnancy to term when they otherwise would have had an abortion because they did not feel they had the economic security to move forward,' she says.Ībolfazli added that with many Americans still recovering from the lingering effects of the broad economic shutdowns caused by the pandemic and the looming potential recession, parents may need to make 'hard decisions' when it comes to raising their children.

People who are denied abortion access may need to make 'daily economic calculations,' including whether they have enough money for rent, gas and child care, says Leila Abolfazli, director of federal reproductive rights at the National Women's Law Center, a non-profit group that advocates for women's and LGBTQ rights.

The researchers also found that children born as a result of their mothers not being able to have an abortion were more likely to live below the federal poverty level than children born to women who were able to obtain abortions for unwanted pregnancies earlier in life.

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