Dawn Attride
April 23, 2026
Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ended the constitutional right to abortion, Caroline Rouse, MD, said her maternal-fetal medicine practice in Indianapolis has profoundly changed.
Under Indiana’s near-total ban, patients who could previously receive time-sensitive care in their own community are now unable to and/or forced to travel to other states.
Using flawed studies and scientific journal publications, abortion opponents are building a body of research meant to question the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, a key target for the movement.
Shefali Luthra
May 30, 2025
Using flawed studies and scientific journal publications, abortion opponents are building a body of research meant to question the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, a key target for the movement.
The effort comes as federal officials have expressed a willingness to revisit the drug’s approval — and potentially impose new restrictions on a medication used in the vast majority of abortions.
Continued: https://19thnews.org/2025/05/abortion-opponents-mifepristone-junk-science/
Researchers are calling for the retraction of misleading anti-abortion studies that could influence judges in critical cases
Jessica Glenza
Sun 28 Apr 2024
The retraction of three peer-reviewed articles prominently cited in court cases on the so-called abortion pill – mifepristone – has put a group of papers by anti-abortion researchers in the scientific limelight.
Seventeen sexual and reproductive health researchers are calling for four peer-reviewed studies by anti-abortion researchers to be retracted or amended. The papers, critics contend, are “fatally flawed” and muddy the scientific consensus for courts and lawmakers who lack the scientific training to understand their methodological flaws.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/28/junk-science-papers-abortion-cases
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/
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
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.
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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