Consequence of the end of Roe: Lessons from the turnaway study

Diana Greene Foster

This conference is part of the Montréal Health Ethics Lecture Series 2025

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Summary of the presentation:
This talk discusses the consequences of the end of a federally protected right to abortion in the United States. It describes the options open to those who want an abortion and live in one of the 21 states that has severely restricted or banned abortion and the trends in travel, telemedicine, self-managed abortion and carrying unwanted pregnancies to term. The consequences of carrying unwanted pregnancies to term has been documented through Diana Greene Foster’s Turnaway Study which examined the health, economic and life course consequences of receiving versus being denied a wanted abortion for women and children prior to the Dobbs decision.

Biography:
Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer and professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She led the United States Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who received or were denied wanted abortions. She is leading a study of the health, legal and economic consequences of the end of Roe in the United States and a Turnaway Study in Nepal. She was named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and is the author of over 120 scientific papers as well as the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion.

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2025 SERIES THEME

Ethnical issues related to women's health and well-being