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Dozens of states make it hard to get abortions

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“She told me she couldn’t afford to have another child financially or emotionally,” Parker said.

He said he doesn’t know whether she was using birth control; he doesn’t usually ask.

“All I need is to make sure that they’re certain” about abortion. Most “have already been thinking about this decision for weeks on end,” he said.

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CDC abortion data: http://1.usa.gov/7drlmU

Guttmacher Institute: http://www.guttmacher.org

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