The ACLU of North Carolina and Duke University's Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology are proud to invite you to a reading of The Turnaway Play followed by a panel discussion with reproductive rights experts about the current state of abortion access in North Carolina. The play is a witty, moving, and timely look at what really happens when women are denied access to abortion. The play is inspired and informed by the groundbreaking Turnaway Study, which followed 1,000 women over ten years and reached the first definitive scientific conclusions about the consequences for women’s lives of either having or being denied abortions.

Dr. Diana Greene Foster, the reproductive rights researcher behind the Turnaway Study, will be included on the panel. Dr. Greene Foster was named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and is the author of over 120 scientific papers as well as the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion.

Learn more information and buy tickets for $10 each. We hope to see you there.