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&#8220Ifyou 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.&#8221(Gloria Steinem)The &#8220rearkable&#8221(The New Yorker) landmark
study of the consequences on women&#8217lives&#8212emtional, physical, financial,
professional, personal, and psychological&#8212ofreceiving versus being denied an abortion that
&#8220hold be required reading for every judge, member of Congress, and candidate for
office&#8212aswell as anyone who hopes to better understand this complex and important
issue&#8221(Cecile Richards).What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?
To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of
scientists&#8212pschologists, epidemiologists, demographers, nurses, physicians, economists,
sociologists, and public health researchers&#8212toconduct a 10-year study. They followed a
thousand women from across America, some of whom received abortions, some of whom were
turned away. Now, for the first time, Dr. Foster presents the results of this landmark study in one
extraordinary, groundbreaking book.Judges, politicians, and pro-life advocates routinely defend
their anti-abortion stance by claiming that abortion is physically risky and leads to depression and
remorse. Dr. Foster&#8217data proves the opposite to be true. Foster documents the outcomes
for women who received and were denied an abortion, analyzing the impact on their mental and
physical health, their careers, their romantic relationships, and their other children, if they have
them. Women who received an abortion were better off by almost every measure than women
who did not, and five years after they receive an abortion, 99 percent of women do not regret it.As
the national debate around abortion intensifies, The Turnaway Study offers the first thorough,
data-driven examination of the negative consequences for women who cannot get abortions and
provides incontrovertible evidence to refute the claim that abortion harms women. Interwoven with
the study findings are 10 &#8220enaging, in-depth&#8221(Ms. Magazine) first-person narratives.
Candid, intimate, and deeply revealing, they bring to life the women and the stories behind the
science.Revelatory, essential, and &#8220paticularly relevant now&#8221(HuffPost), this is a
must-hear for anyone who cares about the impact of abortion and abortion restrictions on
people&#8217lives.