Many couples find that pregnancy poses new financial and emotional concerns that they hadn't anticipated.

Women who had an abortion in Finland and the United States usually did not state that the pregnancy posed a risk to their health.

Prior to the late 1960s, abortion was illegal in every state of the United States, except in cases where the pregnancy posed a risk to the mother's life.

In addition, critics have argued on medical grounds that such late pregnancies pose grave medical risks to the mother.

By that time she was 36 and feared a pregnancy would pose "significant risk to her health," the document says.

For women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS, pregnancy poses a heartwrenching choice.

Abortion cannot be denied by a committee if the woman's pregnancy has not exceeded twelve weeks and poses a "grave crisis situation" for the mother.

Her pregnancy posed a heart-wrenching dilemma, she said.

One is how flexible a restriction on access to abortion must be when a woman's pregnancy poses a threat to her health.

A pregnancy where the mother is weak could pose a risk to the baby's and mother's health.