Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood's 2021 Leadership Circle Event Program

10 YEARS

1,000

WOMEN ACCESSIBLE

THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING OR BEING DENIED AN ABORTION

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2021 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM; ZOOM

ABORTION ACCESS: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE TURNED AWAY Thursday, October 28 12:30 – 1:30 PM Zoom

Welcome Chelly Hegan President/CEO Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood Thank you To Our Sponsors Corey Jamison Consulting CDPHP GrayPoint Godfrey Financial Associates PharmPak Ungerman Electric Women@Work Magazine Keynote Speaker Dr. Diana Greene Foster Author The Turnaway Study In Conversation Chelly Hegan and Dr. Foster In Closing Chelly Hegan President/CEO Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood

DIANA GREENE FOSTER is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH). An internationally recognized expert on women’s experiences with contraception and abortion, she is the principal investigator of the Turnaway Study. She has a bachelor’s of science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate from Princeton University. She lives with her husband and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Turnaway Study is the landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological—of receiving versus being denied an abortion

What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?

To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of scientists—psychologists, epidemiologists, demographers, nurses, physicians, economists, sociologists, and public health researchers— to conduct a ten-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 antiabortion stance by claiming that abortion is physically risky and leads to depression and remorse. Dr. Foster’s data proves the opposite to be true. Foster documents the out­comes for women who received an abortion and for those who were denied, 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.

The Turnaway Study offers the first data-driven and in-depth examination of the negative conse­quences for women who cannot get abortions and provides incontrovertible evidence to refute the claim that abortion harms women. Revelatory and essential, this is a must-read for anyone who cares about the impact of abortion and abortion restrictions on people’s lives.

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