A prominent study cited in abortion rights lawsuits is based on the unethical use of personal identifying information, according to a new peer reviewed report.
In addition, the report catalogues numerous ways the Turnaway Study has violated the accepted standards for reporting scientific results. The report is authored by David Reardon, director of the Elliot Institute and the author of over 40 peer reviewed studies examining the harms of unwanted abortions on women.
Data for the Turnaway Study was collected by ANSIRH, a department at the University of California San Francisco dedicated to advancing abortion access both domestically and abroad. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which has provided over $4 billion dollars to advance Malthusian population control efforts is the department's largest benefactor.
Over fifty papers have been published based on the Turnaway Study data collected with the help of thirty clinics.
Most recently, in an effort to prove that women who are denied abortions suffer economic harms, ANSIRH provided the personally identifying information of the participants to Experian to retrieve their credit history data, including a summary of court appearances.