there's pressure both ways, there's mental repercussions both ways. The women I've known who have had abortions had no regrets. For an interesting stat - in the university where I did my undergrad degree there had not been a single student who gave birth to a child for over a dozen years at the time I was there. This in a fifty percent female university with plenty of sexual activity and all the recklessness of horny young adults on their own for the first time.

If I were this child's parent I'd have encouraged her to have an abortion while simultaneously trying to make sure she understood that if she chose to keep it, she'd get my full support. That's presumably the sort of pressure you're talking about. But what are parents, friends, etc. supposed to do - refuse to talk about it, offer no advice?