What Happens to Women Who Are Denied Abortion? Here Are the Stats
glamour.comBy What happens to women who are abortion? The , which followed nearly 1,000 women over five years, found that abortion does not harm women, and that women who are refused abortion have worse outcomes in the long run, in terms of health, financial stability, and the safety of their children. “Everyone who wants to weigh in on abortion policy should understand what the consequences are,” says Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D., the lead researcher of the Turnaway Study. “And the study is very clear about the consequences.”This week marks the 49th anniversary of , the Supreme Court decision that found that the right to abortion is protected by the Constitution.
Roe may never see a 50th anniversary—it may be by the Supreme Court in the next year, which will leave individual states to pass their own laws legalizing or banning abortion.
In September, Planned Parenthood doctor Bhavik Kumar Glamour that the day after Texas’s latest abortion restriction law went into effect, he saw three patients who would have qualified for an abortion the day before.
What happens to patients like that, if they don’t have the means to seek abortion out of state?What are the long-term consequences of being forced to carry a baby to term?
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