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

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The anti-abortion movement - including several prominent Republican lawmakers - is looking to undo that.
63% : It is estimated that as many as 20% of abortions in the US are now accessed via telehealth appointments, a technological marvel that has allowed many people living in anti-choice states to avert the worst consequences to their lives, health and dignity that were threatened by the Dobbs decision by circumventing the unjust abortion bans that their states have attempted to impose on them.
58% : Since the 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that eliminated the nationwide right to abortion, women living in anti-choice states have relied increasingly on mifepristone, particularly pills shipped by mail from providers in pro-choice states who prescribe the drug via telehealth.
54% : 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.
48% : Hawley went on to urge the FDA to restrict access to the drug and revert to pre-pandemic regulations, in which mifepristone could only be dispensed by a doctor after multiple in-person visits: a regulatory regime that would cut off abortion access to millions of women in anti-choice states.
39% : Conveniently, misleading research emerged within days Almost two-thirds of US abortions are induced with pills.
34% : The adverse effects that the anti-abortion movement sees in mifepristone's availability is not a matter of women's health, which they are indifferent to.
33% : The truth is that abortion pills have a lower rate of serious complications than Tylenol, and that the anti-abortion movement is in fact a great danger to American women's health.

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