Editing Abortion (section)

===Societal===
Some abortions are undergone as the result of societal pressures.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | veditors = Fried MG |title=From Privacy to Autonomy: The Conditions for Reproductive and Sexual Freedom | vauthors = Copelon R |author-link=Rhonda Copelon |encyclopedia=From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement |date=1990 |publisher=South End Press |isbn=978-0-89608-387-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keE5EmSKYr0C&q=abortion%20poverty%20autonomy&pg=PA38 |pages=27–43 |quote=The prevalence of economically influenced abortions and the sterilization campaigns against poor, minority, and disabled women show us that autonomy is impossible without eradication of discrimination and poverty. Racism, sexism, and poverty can make the difference between abortions that reflect choice and those reflecting bitter necessity. |access-date=29 October 2020 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126082936/https://books.google.com/books?id=keE5EmSKYr0C&q=abortion%20poverty%20autonomy&pg=PA38 |url-status=live }}</ref> These might include the preference for children of a specific sex or race, disapproval of single or early motherhood, stigmatization of people with disabilities, insufficient economic support for families, lack of access to or rejection of contraceptive methods, or efforts toward [[population control]] (such as China's [[one-child policy]]). These factors can sometimes result in compulsory abortion or [[sex-selective abortion]].<ref name="MissingWomen">{{cite journal | vauthors = Oster E |author-link=Emily Oster |title=Explaining Asia's "Missing Women": A New Look at the Data |journal=Population and Development Review |date=September 2005 |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=529–535 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4994961 |access-date=5 February 2019 |doi=10.1111/j.1728-4457.2005.00082.x |quote=Households have variously resorted to female infanticide and postnatal withholding of health care; and since the mid-1980s, when technology permitting fairly low-cost determination of the sex of fetuses became available, there has been a shift toward prenatal sex selection by means of induced abortion. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207131815/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4994961_Explaining_Asia%27s_Missing_Women_A_New_Look_at_the_Data |archive-date=7 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In cultures where there is a preference for male children, some women have sex selective abortions, which have partially replaced the earlier practice of female [[infanticide]].<ref name="MissingWomen" />