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3 new Studies show Abortion dangerous for Women
Under heavy political pressure to censor their own scientific research, “an academic publishing company, Sage, retracted three research studies that do not fit a pro-abortion political narrative,” reports LifeNews.
The most prominent of these studies considered whether women who have induced abortions are more likely to end up in the emergency room. To answer this timely question, a team of credentialed doctors and researchers carefully examined and analyzed state Medicaid claims data. The results are staggering. The study found that the rate of abortion-related emergency room visits among Medicaid-eligible women who underwent the abortion drug regimen increased over 500 percent from 2002-2015.
Recognizing the significance of these findings, the authors submitted the study to Sage. In their submission, the study authors disclosed their organizational affiliations and willingly submitted to Sage’s protocol of a double-anonymized review of their work, meaning that neither the authors nor the reviewers knew each other’s identities – only Sage knew.
After multiple peer reviewers, selected by Sage, approved the study, Sage agreed to publish the findings of the study in November 2021. For over a year-and-a-half, the study contributed to productive discourse surrounding the health of women and the question of safety with abortion drugs. During that time, the study did not face a single challenge from members of the medical community, n
or was it flagged for concern. That all changed in April of last year, after the study was cited by a federal judge in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration, a case which looks at the safety of the abortion drug mifepristone. Tellingly that same month, a then-anonymous individual complained to Sage about representation of data in the article and supposed author conflict of interest.
That complaint sparked eight months of back-and-forth between Sage and the study authors, in which every single critique about the research was directly refuted. Despite this good-faith effort by the researchers, this month Sage retracted the emergency room study and two other studies by the same lead author. The retraction occurred just a week after the United States Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration.
Sage’s retraction notice cites the researchers’ affiliations with the Charlotte Lozier Institute and other pro-life organizations as a conflict of interest, a main reason for the retraction, despite the fact that these affiliations were clearly and repeatedly mentioned in the articles. Importantly, the authors of the three studies also fully complied with all of Sage’s disclosure requirements at the time of the articles’ submission.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: If abortion has become more dangerous for women, just imagine how deadly it is for the baby! NO abortion is safe when half of the patients are always wheeled out dead. Let’s petition Congress to define life at conception.]
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