The FDA’s Continued Deception on Abortion Drugs Is Putting Women at Risk

Retracted studies aren’t at issue in the FDA’s abortion-drug case. The agency’s own data are.

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A patient prepares to take mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, at the Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Ill., April 20, 2023.

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It’s always interesting when something that shouldn’t be all that interesting suddenly becomes extremely interesting to people who are not easily interested.

Recently, the academic publisher Sage retracted three studies from one of its journals. Ordinarily, retractions like these would not be newsworthy outside of the scholastic community, but in this case, some media outlets jumped at the chance to cover them. Why?

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Erin Hawley

Erin Hawley is senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life and Regulatory Practice at Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal).

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