Pro-abortion advocates like to frame their position as “pro-choice,” as if women can easily decide whether or not they want to have an abortion. But for many women who go through with abortion, the decision wasn’t really their choice at all, according to a new study.

A peer-reviewed study by the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute found that “nearly 70 percent of women with a history of abortion describe their abortions as inconsistent with their own values and preferences, with one in four describing their abortions as unwanted or coerced.”

Far from what pro-abortion advocates would have us believe, many women resort to abortion because they believe there are no other options available to them, whether because they lack financial or social support. According to the study, a whopping “60 percent would have preferred to give birth if they had received either more emotional support or had more financial security.”

These results should bring us pause. A true pro-woman position would enthusiastically support women in their desires to keep their babies, not hold up abortion as a cure-all that clearly most women don’t want.

For the study, “researchers interviewed a national sample of 1,000 women ages 41-45,” according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute. “Approximately one in four women reported a history of abortion (similar to the national average), and 91 percent completed the survey—almost three times the participation rate of the famous ‘Turnaway Study’ conducted by an abortion advocacy group, which purported to find almost universal satisfaction with the decision to abort, despite also finding high levels of regret, sadness, guilt, and anger.”

Notably, the Lozier study came out just weeks before the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. On June 24 last year, the Supreme Court sent abortion legislation back to the states with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Now, as pro-life legislators work to limit abortion and abortion advocates attempt to argue that abortion access benefits women, the “pro-choice” arguments seem more and more shallow next to studies such as this one, showing that women often don’t want abortion, but many don’t know anywhere else to turn.

That’s where crisis pregnancy centers come in. So it’s no wonder they’re under attack, too.