You're listening to Shortwave from NPR, a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn

Roe v Wade, the case that protects the right to an abortion, leaked last week.

And as news spread, a crowd formed outside of the Supreme Court building here in DC, our

colleagues at all things considered went to the steps.

The emotions surrounding abortion were and are high.

We at Shortwave, well we turned immediately to the research.

Specifically, the turn away study, led by Dr. Diana Green Foster.

It's the first US study to quote rigorously examine the effects of getting versus being

denied a wanted abortion on women and their children.

We talked to people to hear about how they're doing, to actually know how people are feeling,

you need to talk to them.

And unlike previous studies, this focused on women's well-being, not on the children's

well-being, although we did collect data on those outcomes too.

And this study happened while abortion access was being actively debated in the courts.

Back in 2007, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion for Gonzales

versus Carr Hart.

And the majority decision, which said, no, you can't do that procedure anymore.

Justice Anthony Kennedy said quote, while we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon,

it seems unacceptable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the

infant life they once created and sustained.

Severe depression and loss of a steam can follow.

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