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Row over medical journal's refusal to retract paper used to restrict abortion in US legal cases

A highly critiqued paper in a British journal has been cited in US legal cases to restrict access to abortion. Attempts to retract the paper by insiders at the journal have failed, leading to a row over editorial independence. Madlen Davies reports

The British Journal of Psychiatry has been criticised over its decision not to retract a widely critiqued paper on abortion, which has been used in US legal cases to restrict access to the procedure. Three of the journal’s international board members have resigned after the journal and its owner, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, ignored the advice of its own internal panel to retract the paper, The BMJ and Newsnight can reveal.

One former board member told The BMJ that the journal and the royal college feared being sued by the paper’s author, as she threatened legal action after being notified her paper was being investigated. The paper, published in 2011, concluded that “women who had undergone an abortion experienced ....

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