Questioned about the study, Antonia Biggs, a social psychologist researcher at the University of California San Francisco, agreed that some women change their minds about having an abortion or are uncertain to begin with. But she noted that the study did not find that Utah's mandatory waiting period caused women to change their minds or that it was otherwise beneficial to women.
加州大学旧金山分校的一位社会心理学家安东尼娅·比格斯被问及这项研究时，同意某些女性会改变想堕胎的想法或她们一开始就拿不定主意。但她指出，该研究没有证明是犹他州的强制等待期让女性改变了主意，也没有发现它在其他方面对女性有利。