USA – Researchers call for more abortion studies to be retracted

The criticism of four older studies alleging abortion causes mental illness follows high-profile retractions of studies claiming the abortion pill is dangerous.

BY: SOFIA RESNICK
FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Health and science experts published a commentary in the British Medical Journal on Tuesday calling for the retraction of four older abortion-related studies that, despite documented flaws, have influenced major anti-abortion decisions over the past 20 years, including the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned federal abortion rights.

The commentary comes the same month academic publisher Sage Journals retracted studies calling into question the long-established safety record of the abortion drug mifepristone, which were produced by anti-abortion activists shortly before they sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the same drug.

Continued: https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/02/27/researchers-call-for-more-abortion-studies-to-be-retracted/

Row over British Journal of Psychiatry abortion paper saw panel quit

July 20, 2023
By Kate Lamble & Hannah Barnes, BBC Newsnight

An independent panel resigned in a row over controversial research about the impact of abortion on the mental health of women, BBC News has been told.

The research, which is still being used in US legal cases about limiting access to abortion, was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, in 2011.

Last year the panel, which was set up to investigate complaints about the paper, recommended it be withdrawn. But journal-owner, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, overruled it.

Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66249015

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British Journal of Psychiatry

Dr Aileen O'Brien

Dr Alex Tsai

Frontiers in Psychology

Julia Littell

Priscilla Coleman

Royal College of Psychiatrists

Scottish Labour MSP withdraws invitation to US academic

Scottish Labour MSP withdraws invitation to US academic
Prof Priscilla Coleman authored highly criticised study into link between abortion and anxiety

Libby Brooks
Fri 23 Feb 2018

A Scottish Labour MSP has withdrawn her invitation to speak at the Holyrood parliament from an academic who has linked abortion to mental health issues after fellow MSPs raised concerns about the event.

Elaine Smith, Scottish Labour’s spokesperson on poverty and inequality, invited colleagues to a meeting titled Abortion in Scotland: a solution or a problem? at which US professor Priscilla Coleman had been asked to speak. Coleman was the author of study that looked at the link between abortion and anxiety, mood and substance abuse disorders, which has been heavily criticised.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/23/scottish-labour-msp-withdraws-invitation-priscilla-coleman-abortion

Ireland: Hotel cancels event linking terminations with cancer

Hotel cancels event linking terminations with cancer

Ellen Coyne, Senior Ireland Reporter
September 21 2017

A Dublin hotel has cancelled an anti-abortion conference that claimed there was a link between terminations and the risk of contracting breast cancer.

The event at the Ashling Hotel on Saturday next week had been scheduled to coincide with what is likely to be the last March for Choice before next year’s abortion referendum.

Continued at source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2360bd6a-9e4f-11e7-a7be-33f2196a0804

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