The Turnaway Study researchers discovered through their work that when someone is turned away from a desired abortion, they are four times more likely to live below the federal poverty line and less likely to have aspirational life plans in the coming year (among many other barriers to a thriving life). They are less likely to be employed and more likely to rely on public assistance. 4 Furthermore, they found that among the people who were denied abortions, 90 percent chose to raise the child rather than chose adoption.5 The same researchers at UCSF compared children born after their mothers
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