Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it’s bogus | Moira Donegan

Mifepristone blocks the pregnancy hormone progesterone, ending the growth of the fetus.

Since the 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that eliminated the nationwide right to abortion, women in anti-choice states have relied increasingly on the drug.

A conservative thinktank published a new study that purported to find the drug caused serious adverse effects in more than 10% of patients.

The study has come under scrutiny from doctors and statisticians for its questionable methodology.

The EPPC study also seems to include those who were prescribed mifepristone for non-abortion uses, such as miscarriage management, as well as those who took it alone, without the standard misoprostol dose that accompanies it.

The study is not peer reviewed and has not been published in a medical journal, because its authors could not meet the standards that such publication requires.