"These are the struggles that women will be going through as they're forced to carry a pregnancy to term when they otherwise would have had an abortion because they did not feel they had the economic security to move forward," she says.
Abolfazli added that with many Americans still recovering from the lingering effects of the broad economic shutdowns caused by the pandemic and the looming potential recession, parents may need to make "hard decisions" when it comes to raising their children.
"Do they skip a meal? Do they skip health care that they need, so that their child can get it? How do they support their children that they already had? One of the reasons women often have abortions is because they want to support the family that they already have," she says. "The Turnaway Study shows that those [previous] children suffer more when people are denied their abortions."
On the whole, the Turnaway Study found that women who were able to have an abortion were more financially stable and were able to raise their kids under better conditions.
A separate 2018 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, which used data from the Turnaway Study, similarly found that women who were denied abortions had higher odds of poverty six months later, and were more likely to be in poverty four years afterward.
The study found that women who were denied abortions were less likely to have full-time jobs six months after their denial, and for the next four years were more likely to be on a public assistance program.
The Supreme Court's ruling gives the states the power to set their own abortion laws. It has already been banned in several states including Wisconsin, Alabama and Kentucky, while states like Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee are expected to ban the procedure soon.
