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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 didn't 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 bring a little data to that. we're going to turn away to a new topic in a moment. i just want to al...

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. that's 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 diverged greatly after one group had a baby and the other one had an abortion. so the biggest -- the...

Decisions are going to be made. when this comes to state restrictions, whether gestational restrictions or licensing restrictions. they're going to be decided in the federal court. they're probably not going to reach the supreme court level. filling those positions, this administration with people who understand and value women's rights and the reproductive rights in particular, it's critical at this point. president obama has 19 nominees in the pipeline currently, and senator reid needs to move those forward. >> here we go. >> move them forward. it's time. it's important for women who are goi...

How do women get to the point where they're turned away from a clinic. oftentimes, they have trouble paying for an abortion. according to the 2008 numbers, they've declined except low income women. again, these state laws, they impact especially the ones where there aren't providers. the women in the study 150 miles away from the latest providers. they're seeking to drive abortion providers out of business so only the affluent women can travel that far. >> diana, in your study, you're looking at people already in tough economic circumstances. but what can you say with sort of some confidence a...

>> thank you for having me. >> start with a little nerd iness here. explain to me the methodology and why it's valid for understanding the economic consequences of being denied reproductive rights privileges. >> sure. there's 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 and used as a rationale to restrict access to abortion. many of these studies compare women who hav...