num_pages: 368
description: If you read only one book about democracy The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies there is no democracy. Gloria SteinemDr. Diana Greene Foster brings what is too often missing from the public debate around science data and the real-life experiences of people from diverse backgroundsThis should be required reading for every judge member of Congress and candidate for officeas well as anyone who hopes to better understand this complex and important issue. Cecile Richards cofounder of Supermajority former president of Planned Parenthood and author of Make TroubleA groundbreaking and illuminating look at the state of abortion access in America and the first long-term study of the consequencesemotional physical financial professional personal and psychologicalof receiving versus being denied an abortion on womens lives.What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? Diana Greene Foster PhD decided to find out. With a team of scientistspsychologists epidemiologists demographers nursing scholars and public health researchersshe set out to discover the effect of receiving versus being denied an abortion on womens lives. Over the course of a ten-year investigation that began in 2007 she and her team followed a thousand women from more than twenty states some of whom received their abortions some of whom were turned away.Now for the first time the results of this landmark studythe largest of its kind to examine womens experiences with abortion and unwanted pregnancy in the United Stateshave been gathered together in one place. Here Foster presents the emotional physical and socioeconomic outcomes for women who received their abortion and those who were denied. She analyzes the impact on their mental and physical health their careers their romantic lives their professional aspirations and even their existing and future childrenand finds that women who received an abortion were almost always better off than women who were denied one. Interwoven with these findings are ten riveting first-person narratives by women who share their candid stories.As the debate about abortion rights intensifies The Turnaway Study offers an in-depth examination of the real-world consequences for women of being denied abortions and provides evidence to refute the claim that abortion harms women. With brilliant synthesis and startling statisticsthat thousands of American women are unable to access abortions; that 99% of women who receive an abortion do not regret it five years later The Turnaway Study is a necessary and revelatory look at the impact of abortion access on peoples lives .
language: English
title: The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
publisher: Scribner