Reply #74: Or they don't know they're pregnant (it happens). Or they're young and scared. Or they don't have an

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abortion clinic within 5 hours of their home, and don't have a car or money. Or they're drug addicts or alcoholics and were focused on their next hit. Or they were talked out of an abortion at 12 weeks and have come to regret that decision. Or they are severely depressed and weren't mentally in a position to deal with it earlier. Or they were raped and highly traumatized and/or ashamed and couldn't bring themselves to talk about it. Or they're a child who was raped (or fooling around with the boy next door) and has little idea of what might indicate one is pregnant. Or is a married woman of menopausal age who has always had irregular menstrual cycles and was using birth control and only at 5 months picked up on the symptoms of pregnancy, never having been pregnant before. Need I continue?