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Dr. Diana Greene Foster directed one of the most important studies of our time
🎧 LISTEN TO: What Happens When You Want an Abortion But Can't Get One: Dr. Diana Greene Foster on the Turnaway Study
Hey Privates!
It was an honor to interview our latest guest, Dr. Diana Greene Foster, who is responsible for such groundbreaking abortion research that this is how Gloria Steinem blurbed her book:
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it.”
The Turnaway Study shows how paths diverge for people who are able to choose abortion vs. those forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. When I first read about this study, I felt seen.
I can imagine how my life would be different if I'd had to become a mom long before I was ready...
I’d probably have more financial struggles.
I definitely would have had to modify some of my career goals.
It would be hard to have the abusive guy who impregnated me still in my life.
And that’s exactly what data from the Turnaway Study shows.
There are significant, long-term consequences to being denied an abortion, up to and including death. (Seriously, two women who couldn’t get abortions died during the study period.)
I unpack all of this in the latest episode with Dr. Foster. She’s the director of research at ANSIRH and the author of The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—Or Being Denied—An Abortion. We discuss why she started the study, how it was conducted, her hypothesis, the results, and more.
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🎧 Here’s a playlist of our previous abortion-related episodes, including the “Men Have Abortions Too” series.
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