“…Although empirical research on abortion has been limited by the scarcity of data on abortion (Bankole et al, 1998(Bankole et al, , 1999Gil-Lacruz et al, 2012), it seems to be related to lower socioeconomic characteristics such as lower levels of education, employment and income (Addor et al, 2003;Helström et al, 2006;Font-Ribera et al, 2008;Gil-Lacruz et al, 2012) and to be more concentrated among poorer individuals (Font-Ribera et al, 2008;Rasch et al, 2008) in developed countries. This may be related to the lower prevalence of unintended pregnancies (or higher prevalence of contraceptive use) among people of higher socioeconomic status, and therefore lower abortion rates, in developing countries (Gillespie, 2007;Creanga et al, 2011).…”