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We used many different measures of mental health well-being. and the only difference we found was at baseline, one week after the women had received or been denied an abortion, the women denied an abortion had higher anxiety symptoms. after that, the two groups look the same again. there were no mental health differences over time. >> the notion that theres more anxiety at that moment is not surprising to me. diana, hang on for a minute. i want you to stay with us. were going to bring the panel ...

Francisco. i want to turn to you, rebecca on this. were seeing ohio learning no political lessons from the election we just had. ohio voted for the president. exit polls show a strong majority, 56% of ohio ans believe abortion should be legal. what we see immediately an attack in the lame duck session on abortion. >> this is all thats been happening around the country in state legislatures and in the house of representatives for the past two years. it is no change. its a lame duck session. but t...

Pregnancy becomes more difficult. the turn away study. a five-year investigation that started in 2008 looked into the lives of women who sought to terminate their pregnancies, but were turned away and denied abortions because their pregnancies were too advanced usually by only a matter of days. researchers at the university of ka california san francisco think tank recruited nearly 1,000 women across the country who tried to get an abortion. 182 were turned away. two years into the stut study, t...

Miles that will do abortion later in pregnancy. we compared women just injure the gestational limit and those just over and talked to them about mental health, their physical health and socioeconomic well-being. so we found that these two groups were very similar at the onset. they had a difference of three weeks on average. but at baseline, they were very similar in characteristics. >> diana, i want to pause on that for a bit so people can understand why folks were getting turned away. i think ...

My colleague estimates that 4,000 women across the country without these new bills that would lower the gestational limits, 4,000 women a year are turned away because they show up beyond the gestational limit of the abortion facilities near them. many more no doubt are turned away because they couldnt raise the fund or didnt have transportation. but -- certainly lowering the gestational limit will increase a number of women who are unable to access abortion care. >> this is so important. we thin...

Borings. but the women turned away, had a significantly three times odds of being below the poverty level compared to the women who got the abortion. they were 23% more likely to say they didnt have enough money to meet food, housing and transportation costs. there was a sharp economic difference between the groups. >> diana, i want to say thank you for the study. during the commercial at the table we were saying how is this study something that is not done already? so i sew appreciate that you ...

They had children and felt they could not add more children economically to their households. what has been the impact on the folks in your study. not only on the women but on the other children already in their families. >> sure. in our study, about 60% of the women were already mothers. thats consistent with the national literature on who gets abortions. at baseline, the two groups, the women who received an abortion and the women denied an abortion, both were quite similar. then their paths d...

Decisions are going to be made. when this comes to state restrictions, whether gestational restrictions or licensing restrictions. theyre going to be decided in the federal court. theyre probably not going to reach the supreme court level. filling those positions, this administration with people who understand and value womens rights and the reproductive rights in particular, its critical at this point. president obama has 19 nominees in the pipeline currently, and senator reid needs to move tho...

How do women get to the point where theyre turned away from a clinic. oftentimes, they have trouble paying for an abortion. according to the 2008 numbers, theyve declined except low income women. again, these state laws, they impact especially the ones where there arent providers. the women in the study 150 miles away from the latest providers. theyre seeking to drive abortion providers out of business so only the affluent women can travel that far. >> diana, in your study, youre looking at peop...

>> thank you for having me. >> start with a little nerd iness here. explain to me the methodology and why its valid for understanding the economic consequences of being denied reproductive rights privileges. >> sure. theres a small but very poor literature on what happens to women when they have abortions. often these studies are done with attempt to show that abortion hurts women. that narrative that abortion hurts women has -- is present in our policy debates on billboards and had our courts a...