The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade to remove legal protection of abortion rights.
But a major longitudinal study shows that women who are denied abortions, and go on to have a baby have worse health outcomes years later than women who receive an abortion.
Turnaway Study, compared the health of roughly 330 women who had an abortion during their first trimester with 380 who had an abortion during their second trimester and just over 160 who tried to get an abortion but who were turned away. what were the finding? Dr. Lauren Ralph, Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and an Epidemiologist with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, joins The Morning Beat and shares the results.