Dr. Diana Greene Foster: People tell us that they can’t afford to have a child, and that’s one of their reasons, and sure enough, we see that people who can’t get an abortion are more likely to fall below the federal poverty level. They’re more likely to tell us that they don’t have money for food, housing, and transportation. They’re less able to support their existing kids. And I published all of those data based on women’s self report of their economic well-being in the American Journal of Public Health. An economist at the University of Michigan, Sarah Miller, reached out to me, and said, “What you should do is match the people in the study to their credit reports,” because credit agencies don’t know if you’ve been pregnant, they don’t know that you sought an abortion, they don’t even know that you had a birth, but it’s this objective measure of your economic well-being. And she did that work, and we found higher chance of eviction, higher chance of foreclosure, larger amount of debt, greater likelihood of having a low credit score. So economic insecurity that lasted– more than four years later, you could see worse economic health. So you asked for a surprise. That’s not a surprise, because people told us at the beginning, “I can’t afford to have a child,” and they understood. But they also told us, “My relationship’s not good enough to support having a child,” and we saw that relationships dissolve regardless of whether you have a baby or a child. They told us they need to care for their existing children, and we see their existing children do worse economically and developmentally. They say it’s not a right time for a child and we see that maternal bonding is worse with the child born because the mom was denied an abortion compared to next child born to someone who was able to get an abortion, and plan or accept the timing of the next pregnancy. The biggest surprise is that we didn’t need to do this study, because we could’ve just asked people, “Why do you want abortions,” because they were exactly right in predicting the outcomes. Now, of course, if we hadn’t done the study, people wouldn’t necessarily believe women about their reasons, and we could show, the reasons they give us are exactly the outcomes they will experience if they can’t get an abortion.