The Turnaway Project is dedicated to generating awareness about the positive life outcomes directly stemming from access to a wanted abortion, and the negative and damaging impacts – economic, health, mental health, child welfare –– when access to abortion is restricted.

The project is based upon a first-of-its-kind, transformational  research project called The Turnaway Study, led by MacArthur Fellow Dr. Diana Greene Foster and published in 2020. The data-driven study followed a thousand ethnically diverse pregnant people for ten years to definitively answer the question, What happens when a person wants an abortion but cannot get one?

Our mission is to disseminate the Study’s key findings, and to promote the Turnaway Play - based on the study - through as many readings and performances as possible, targeting areas of the country where abortion is banned or restricted. 

Given the recent changes in our political/social landscape and the stated intention of anti-abortion advocates to further restrict access - despite demonstrably false claims - the utility of The Turnaway Study and the Turnaway Play have exponentially increased. We need YOUR help to spread the facts. 

Your donations will enable:

• Stipends for student activists to co-create campaigns, toolkits and plan activations across school campuses

• Turnaway Play performances & dramatic readings around the country

• Engaging policy makers with tools, resources, and facts to support abortion access

• Recruiting cultural influencers to amplify Turnaway and get it into the zeitgeist

All donations to The Turnaway Project are 501c3 tax-deductible contributions through our fiscal sponsor, Homeland Research Group. You may give online using this form or via Venmo at @homelands_productions. Or you may mail a check made out to "Homelands Research Group" and addressed to The Turnaway Project, Homelands Research Group, 122 Judd Falls Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850. 

For larger donations or questions, please email Turnaway Project Director Annabel Sheinberg at annabel.sheinberg@gmail.com.