A landmark study of women seeking abortions shows the harms of being unable to end an unwanted pregnancy.
As the Supreme Court decides the future of abortion laws in the U.S., a key question to be considered is whether access to the procedure has positive or negative consequences for the people who get an abortion, and for society in general.
Thus, until recently, the few studies that tried to measure the impacts of abortion access had an important limitation. They compared groups that were too different to begin with—for example, people who got abortions and people who chose to give birth. Because of how it was able to isolate the effect of abortion access in a natural experiment, the Turnaway Study is recognized by the scientific community as an important contribution to the field, generating data that many scientists say should be considered by policy makers.
For Myers, what put those concerns to rest was seeing a subsequent analysis, also a part of the Turnaway Study, in which researchers linked the study’s participants to their credit scores. “What I found so powerful was that they [the authors] don’t just match them at the time they seek the abortion. They match them for an extensive time period prior to experiencing the unintended pregnancy,” Myers says.
Two women in the Turnaway Study died from childbirth; there were no abortion-related deaths. Stevenson notes that, while the investigation was not designed to study mortality, two pregnancy-related deaths are more than what would be normally expected for a population of that size.
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