Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Two of the studies cited in a ruling that suspended federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone were retracted by a medical journal earlier this week.
Sage Publishing said it issued the retractions from the journal Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology because of methodology issues and conflicts of interest. The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in March on the case about access to mifepristone, the drug used in medication abortions which cited the studies.
Medicated abortions account for about half of all abortions, according to according to Guttmacher Institute, an organization committed to advancing reproductive rights.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk cited these now-retracted studies in his decision to suspend the Food and Drug Administration s authorization of mifepristone. A federal appeals court overturned parts of the ruling, only keeping restrictions that prohibit patients from
Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Two of the studies cited in a ruling that suspended federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone
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