Researchers are calling for the retraction of misleading anti-abortion studies that could influence judges in critical cases
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.
While some papers date back to 2002, the group argues that now – in the post-Roe v Wade era – the stakes have never been higher. State and federal courts now routinely field cases on near-total abortion bans, attacks on in vitro fertilization and attempts to give fetuses the rights of people.
“When we saw the meta-analysis presented again and again and again – in the briefs to the Dobbs case” that overturned Roe v Wade “and state cases” to restrict abortion, “the concerns really rose,” said Julia Littell, a retired Bryn Mawr professor and social researcher with expertise in statistical analysis.
A meta-analysis is a kind of research that uses statistical methods to combine studies on the same topic. Researchers sometimes use these analyses to examine the scientific consensus on a subject.
It never was about the science, and the science will never convince those who want to force births. It isn’t even just that the cruelty is the point, but it’s about conserving “traditional values” of women at home completely occupied with having and raising children and serving their husbands, not existing alongside them in the world, in service of the patriarchy which in turn serves capitalism (more kids = more workers, women at home doing all that unpaid work…).
Or murdering babies is murder
If you are a ‘pro-lifer’ when it comes to abortion, you should be just as passionate about increasing funding for unprivileged children, housing the unhoused, feeding the hungry, etc. Otherwise, your position is inane nonsense
Thanks for proving my point - the science (nor anything attached to reality, really) doesn’t matter to cruel and wilfully ignorant misogynists… ¯\(ツ)/¯
Maybe if they were babies… Which they’re not btw, in case you were unaware.
zygotes aren’t babies. fetuses aren’t babies. middle school science explained this shit, what, did you skip the whole fucking time?
what’s it fucking matter? conservatives lie constantly about abortion, talking about abortions at 9 months (not a fucking real thing) and post-birth abortion, otherwise known as murder. Who cares if there are fatal flaws to their other arguments when they’re simply going to lie their asses off anyway?
