This is particularly true in cases where a child is born after an unplanned pregnancy, a mother finds a new partner, or a father is receiving welfare.

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She pointed out that some people are not opposed to having children in their 20s and are at a point in their lives at which they would be relatively comfortable going through with an unplanned pregnancy.

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Half believe that having an abortion would make it difficult to have a child later in life and over a third (35%) would not know where to go for advice if they had an unplanned pregnancy.

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The isolation, worry and stress of an unplanned pregnancy can never be ignored or underestimated, but there are still those of us for whom abortion is not just an unpleasant, distasteful solution to a problem, but the deliberate, and in late abortions, cruel, ending of a life, and therefore morally and philosophically wrong.

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Though here in St Paul, Republican delegates quickly and deftly pointed out that an unplanned teen pregnancy in the family just puts the Palin family in a well-peopled category of American society, and makes her look all the more human for it.

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In my late 30s, we lost an unplanned but wanted pregnancy, which left a terrible pang in my heart whenever I saw a cute baby.

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