Diana Greene Foster, a demographer at the University of California San Francisco, presents the results of the Turnaway Study, the most rigorous research ever conducted on what happens to women who receive versus are denied abortions. Over five years, Foster's team followed nearly a thousand women at abortion clinics across the country, some who received the procedure and others who arrived just past the facility's gestational limit and were 'turned away.' By comparing these groups over time, the study provides unprecedented evidence about abortion's actual effects on women's lives. The findings challenge claims that abortion causes lasting psychological harm, finding instead that the most common emotion is relief and that mental health outcomes are similar or better for women who received abortions. The study documents significant consequences for women denied abortions: greater likelihood of staying in abusive relationships, increased economic hardship, worse health outcomes for both women and their existing children, and failure to achieve life aspirations. Foster presents both statistical findings and individual women's stories, allowing readers to understand the data in human terms. The book also examines what happens to children born after abortion denial and to the children women were already raising. Essential reading for anyone wanting evidence rather than ideology about what abortion access means for women and families.