"When Carrie (not her real name) was 33, she discovered she was pregnant for the fourth time. For the married Ottawa-area mother of three, the pregnancy was the product of an affair. They had used condoms all but once and, while she knew the risks of getting pregnant, they seemed small, given her age and the fact that she’d struggled with serious health complications in her last two pregnancies.

The father balked at having another child. Unwilling to risk breaking up her 15-year marriage to raise four children on her own, she had an abortion.

But when it comes to women in their 30s and 40s, the abortion rate—while still comparatively low—appears to be on the rise. By 2011, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, there were more abortions performed on women in their 30s and 40s than on teens. "

So essentially having an alphas babies after settling with a beta; trying to get one last alpha kid before the eggs dry up.

“What I find so amazing is these women are ambivalent in their late 30s,” says Wiebe. “It was like, wait a minute, you’re getting close to your best-before date.”

lol slip of the tongue?

http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/a-new-kind-of-mid-life-crisis-unwanted-pregnancies/