Risk of violence from the man involved in the pregnancy after receiving or being denied an abortion

Table 1 Baseline characteristics across study group

Participant characteristic	Total	Near limit abortion	Turnaway births	Turnaway no births	First -trimester abortion
Participant characteristic	number = 862	number = 405	number = 156	number = 48	number = 253
	mean (SD) or %
Age, years	24.9 (5.8)	25.0(5.9)	23.5(5.6) **	24.5(6.3)	25.8(5.7) +
Race/ethnicity					*
White	33	32	25	44	39
Black	32	31	35	27	32
Hispanic/Latina	22	21	28	13	21
Other	13	16	13	17	8
Employed	54	55	40 **	50	64 *
Gestational age, weeks	16.9 (7.0)	19.9 (4.0)	23.3 (3.4) ***	18.9 (3.9) ***	7.6 (2.3) ***
Union status
Married	9	8	10	6	11
Cohabiting	18	18	13	17	21
Not-cohabiting, never married	63	63	72	61	57
Divorced/widowed	10	11	5	17	11
Raising children			*
No live births	38	34	47	42	38
Living with all biological children	53	56	42	52	55
Has 1+ children cared for by someone else	9	9	11	6	7
History of child abuse/neglect	26	26	26	13*	27
Family history before age 18
Household member drinking/drug problem	20	21	15	6*	25
Household member psychological disorder	11	8	8	6	18***
Previous depression or anxiety diagnosis	25	23	20	29	30
Alcohol problem symptom	6	4	7	10	7
Recent drug use	14	13	13	8	18
Physical violence from MIP prior six months	5	6	3	4	4
Psychological violence from MIP prior six months	3	3	3	4	4

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