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, Homelands 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 Homelands Research Group, c/o Center for Transformative Action, PO Box 760, Ithaca, NY 14851. Please write "Turnaway Project" on the memo line (or include a note to that effect) so our friends at Homelands know what it's for. 

For larger donations or questions, please email Turnaway Project Director Annabel Sheinberg at annabel@turnawayproject.org.