Last week some changes were made to the abortion laws in Donald Trump’s America.

A number of states in the United States – including Alabama and Missouri – passed legislation that will heavily restrict the abortion rights for women, and in some instances make receiving one completely illegal.

In Alabama, for example, the Republican-controlled State Senate voted in favour of a bill that effectively bans all abortions, including in cases of rape and incest.

But the fact remains that in America (at least as of right now) one in four women will have an abortion before they turn 45.

And in Australia that statistic is similar, with between one third and one quarter of Australian women having an abortion in their reproductive lifetime.

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So why do women have abortions? There are so many different reasons. And there is no one reason that is true for all women.

We’ve compiled a list from all different women of just some of the reasons that women terminate their pregnancies.

For more on this topic:

“I was 14.” 5 women talk about how an abortion changed their life.

“A real life version of The Handmaid’s Tale”: Why everyone is talking about US abortion laws.

Her naked protest photo is making some women angry. But Emily Ratajkowski is not the enemy.