Join the Women’s and Gender Studies Program for the 2021 Women’s History Month Lecture, with guest Diana Greene Foster presenting, “Consequences of Receiving versus Being Denied a Wanted Abortion in the United States.”
For decades, abortion was discussed as a potential harm to the women who seek one. Where does that idea of harm come from? Does abortion actually hurt women and, conversely, what are the harms when women are unable to get a wanted abortion?
Greene Foster, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses the context and findings of The Turnaway Study which asks—and helps answer—those questions. She will talk about why this topic is so difficult to study and what has happened in the absence of rigorous data. She will present the study design of the Turnaway Study and talk about its major findings about women’s mental health, physical health and the wellbeing of their children. She then describes the reasons people give for seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy and what that tells us about can trust women’s decision-making abilities around pregnancy.
Registration for this lecture is required via Zoom at http://go.iu.edu/WHM2021.