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For the past 20 years, the Red River Women’s Clinic was the state’s only abortion provider.

Three-quarters of women who seek abortions were low-income, meaning they had a family income below or up to double the federal poverty level.

Carrying an unwanted pregnancy quadruples the odds that a new mother and her child will live below the poverty line and triples the chances of the mother being unemployed, according to the groundbreaking research project,

Three-quarters of women who seek abortions were low-income, meaning they had a family income below or up to double the federal poverty level.

Three-quarters of women who seek abortions were low-income, meaning they had a family income below or up to double the federal poverty level.

A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband's income, was desperate to return to work but struggling to afford child care. A young Florida warehouse worker had barely left behind a turbulent past of homelessness and abuse only to be mired in debt.

"Having a baby is harder when you're poor," said one anti-abortion professor. "The poor should be 100% the focus of policymaking."

As abortion bans throughout the United States begin to take shape, the stakes are highest for low-wage workers who cannot afford child care expenses. A combination of factors makes unwanted pregnancies exceptionally difficult for lower-income women.

Working while pregnant and raising a child is difficult, but especially so for low-wage workers on whom the financial brunt of denied abortions falls.

It has always been difficult to be pregnant on the job and to raise a child, but especially so for low-wage workers.