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The "Turnaways": What happens to women denied abortions?
Based on a two year longitudinal study (the study will continue for years).
Women who are forced to carry the pregnancy to term are:
http://io9.com/5958187/what-happens-...dy-to-find-out What happens to women denied abortions? This is the first scientific study to find out. Annalee Newitz Abortion is a hotly debated and poorly studied medical procedure. There are a few studies of dubious validity that connect abortion to mental illness and drug use. Politicians have used these studies to justify greater limitations on women seeking abortion in the United States. There has been no sustained effort to study what happens to women who want abortions but can't get them due to restrictive rules. Until now. These women are called turnaways. A new longitudinal study reveals what happens to their economic position, health, and relationship status after seeking an abortion and being denied it. Public health researchers with the UC San Francisco group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) used data from 956 women who sought abortions at 30 different abortion clinics around the U.S. 182 of them were turned away. The researchers, led by Diana Greene Foster, followed and did intensive interviews with these women, who ran the gamut of abortion experiences. Some obtained abortions easily, for some it was a struggle to get them, and some were denied abortions because their pregnancies had lasted a few days beyond the gestational limits of their local clinics. Two weeks ago, the research group presented what they'd learned after two years of the planned five-year, longitudinal "Turnaway Study" at the recent American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco. Here's the short version of what they discovered, from a post they made on the Global Turnaway Study Facebook page: Quote:
Poverty The women in the Turnaway Study were in comparable economic positions at the time they sought abortions. 45% were on public assistance and two-thirds had household incomes below the federal poverty level. One of the main reasons women cite for wanting to abort is money, and based on the outcomes for the turnaways, it seems they are right. Most of the women who were denied an abortion, 86%, were living with their babies a year later. Only 11% had put them up for adoption. Also a year later, they were far more likely to be on public assistance — 76% of the turnaways were on the dole, as opposed to 44% of those who got abortions. 67% percent of the turnaways were below the poverty line (vs. 56% of the women who got abortions), and only 48% had a full time job (vs. 58% of the women who got abortions). When a woman is denied the abortion she wants, she is statistically more likely to wind up unemployed, on public assistance, and below the poverty line. Another conclusion we could draw is that denying women abortions places more burden on the state because of these new mothers' increased reliance on public assistance programs. Violence and Drug Use In the Turnaway Study, the researchers could find no statistically significant differences in drug use between women who get abortions and women who don't. There appears to be no correlation between abortion and increased drug use. One interesting bit of data they did find was that drug users who couldn't get abortions were more likely to give their babies up for adoption. Unfortunately, when it comes to domestic violence, being denied an abortion makes a really big difference. Turnaways were more likely to stay in a relationship with an abusive partner than women who got abortions. A year after being denied an abortion, 7% reported an incident of domestic violence in the last six months. 3% of women who received abortions reported domestic violence in the same time period. Foster emphasized that this wasn't because the turnaways were more likely to get into abusive relationships. It was simply that getting abortions allowed women to get out of such relationships more easily. So it's likely that these numbers actually reflect a dropoff in domestic violence for women who get abortions, rather than a rise among turnaways. This pattern of violence is also part of a larger pattern that shows turnaways are more likely to remain connected to the fathers of their children. Obviously, this isn't always a good thing, as the violence statistics reveal. But even in the vast majority of cases where violence isn't involved, Foster noted that these men aren't living with the turnaways. The researchers asked women about cohabiting with partners, and found that men were no more likely to live with a turnaway who'd borne their children than they were to live with a woman who had an abortion. "The man doesn't stick around just because you have the baby — that's the crude way of putting it," Foster said. Emotions One of the biggest concerns about abortion is that it causes emotional problems that lead to clinical depression. The Turnaway Study looked at that question from two angles: how did turnaways and women who got abortions feel; and did they become clinically depressed. "It's important to remember that how you feel is a separate question from whether you have a mental health problem," Foster said. We'll look at women's emotions here, and discuss mental health in the next section. As the researchers said at the American Public Health Association Meeting, "One week after seeking abortion, 97% of women who obtained an abortion felt that abortion was the right decision; 65% of turnaways still wished they had been able to obtain an abortion." Also one week after being denied an abortion, turnaways told the researchers that they had more feelings of anxiety than the women who had abortions. Women who had abortions overwhelming reported feeling relieved (90%), though many also felt sad and guilty afterwards. All of these feelings faded naturally over time in both groups, however. A year later, there were no differences in anxiety or depression between the two groups. In other words, the Turnaway Study found no indication that there were lasting, harmful negative emotions associated with getting an abortion. The only emotional difference between the two groups at one year was that the turnaways were more stressed. They were more likely to say that they felt like they had more to do than they could get done. None of this translated into clinical depression. "Abortion and depression don't seem directly linked," Foster said. "We'll continue to follow these women for five years, though. So we might find something else down the line." Physical and Mental Health The Turnaway Study found no indication that abortion could be linked with increased mental health disorders. There were no statistical differences between turnaways and women who had abortions when it came to developing clinical depression. But turnaways did face a greater health risk from giving birth. Even late stage abortions are safer than giving birth. The researchers said at the APHA meeting: Quote:
Learn more about these studies from the abstracts of the American Public Health Association panels here and here. |
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It's obviously related to the topic, but it doesn't have much to do with the study.
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A distraught husband has described how he held his wife’s hand as she died from blood poisoning caused by a miscarriage after Irish doctors refused to perform an abortion.
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The consequences these women face are due to their own actions, not because they can't receive late-term abortions. A better title for the research would be, "What happens to irresponsible women?" If these women had abortions, they would probably still find a way to end up in poverty and on the dole.
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This topic has never made sense to me.
"I have no idea what your life circumstances are, how you were raised, what your financial situation is, what the long term implications are for your life and the subsequent life, how this occurrence truly happened, if you have the means to provide adequate care, etc. But I am a thousand miles away and since I live by a certain belief system you better do the same!" I just don't get this line of thinking. ![]() |
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Do you see no societal benefit from keeping a framework of regulation around abortion? Would you have unfettered access to the point abortion is commonly used as birth control?
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Ugh. That one is probably not going to make it as the next taking point for the pro-abortion people any time soon.
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Right, but the points you listed in your post don't really fit in with those justifications.
Danger of life of the mother is the only real valid situation I see here.
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No. Pretty much force them to carry, then berate them tirelessly for going on public assistance. "Keep your legs closed!" followed by "I was raped..." followed by "You asked for it..."
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I definitely see that there needs to be regulation and established standards. I don't like the idea of people continually using it as birth control but I also don't really think that is something we should concern ourselves with. To me, their reasons are there own. Perhaps some kind of law that states you can't have a certain number of them?
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