Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Devastating Health and Financial Impacts, Landmark Study Showed

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May 04, 2022

Inequality Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Devastating Health and Financial Impacts, Landmark Study Showed The researcher who led the Turnaway Study explains how being denied an abortion had lasting negative effects on those who were forced to carry their pregnancies to term and on their children By Tanya Lewis

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FROM THE ARCHIVE A Timeline of How Abortion Laws Could Affect Pregnancy Decisions If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in a Mississippi abortion case, numerous state laws will interfere with key biological and social decisions during pregnancy By Sara Reardon | November 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The callousness of the decision is kind of shocking...the idea that the Constitution doesn't protect people's decision-making around something so fundamental as childbearing, when it has such huge impacts on their health and their ability to support themselves and their children." Diana Greene Foster, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco

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