Predictions for After Roe

The Turnaway Study is the most authoritative study ever done about women who receive abortions and those who do not. It tells us what to expect if abortion is widely prohibited.

Thousands of women were tracked and gave researchers information on how they viewed their lives. The two groups were A.) Women who were just days over the line and were turned away from abortion clinics and B.) those who were just under the time line and got abortions. They were similar women going at beginning of the research. 

From following all these women six generalizations about turning women down for abortions can be seen:

1.) Women with at least a little money will get abortions. Those who do not will be poor. Those who are poor and give birth usually will not climb out of poverty.

2.) There will be more health problems among women. The sad part is poor women more often do not see doctors and go into their reproductive years in poorer health than those who are better off. Then, pregnancy takes a larger toll.

3.) Few women will make their children available for adoption. 

4.) Unwanted births will reduce the number of wanted births. When women can plan their births they are better off financially and usually have more support from a man. They have more births on average after their abortions than women had after births they did not want.

5.) More women will remain in poverty.

6.) More children will grow up in poverty. 

We can expect states to become ever wider in their differences. States allowing abortions will have more money for government such as schools and health cares. State prohibiting abortions will become increasingly poor. 

Whether voters will react to these bad outcomes remains to be seen. In the country of Chile it is said inequities in income led to voter support of abortions. In Ireland, people tired of seeing plane loads of women going to England for abortions that should be available at home. Ireland voted to legalize abortions. In both these countries I'm sure the message of fetus=baby was sold. But it did not prevail.