The Public Health Implications Of Overturning Roe V. Wade
Abortion-rights protesters regroup and protest following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP hide caption
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday. We're revisiting an episode that may give us insight into pregnant people's lives in a post-Roe United States.
We talked to Dr. Diana Greene Foster, the lead researcher on the interdisciplinary team behind The Turnaway Study. For over a decade, she and her fellow researchers followed just under a thousand women who sought an abortion across 21 states. These data reveal the outcomes of unwanted pregnancies and compare the physical, mental and financial consequences of having an abortion to those of carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term.
Further Reading:
- Further Information about The Turnaway Study
- Summary and links to research resulting from The Turnaway Study
- Dr. Foster's book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having — or Being Denied — an Abortion
This episode was edited by Gisele Grayson, and produced and fact-checked by Rebecca Ramirez. Gilly Moon was the audio engineer. Special thanks to our colleagues Lauren Hodges, Adrian Florido and Sami Yeniguin at All Things Considered for covering the Supreme Court news.