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This will make it easier for other podcast listeners to find issues etc. The Washington Examiner had a recent story raising the question of whether or not some academic scientific medical journals have well untoward connections to the abortion

industry that in light of the retraction of three studies that showed the health

effects negative health effects of

chemical abortion. Why were those stories and those studies retracted?

Welcome back to issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about that and an increase in the Texas

birth rate after the passage of its Heartbeat Act Dr Michael New visiting assistant

professor of social research and political science at the Catholic University of

America Senior Associate Scholar at the Charlotte

Loeser Institute, Paige Comstock Cunningham Fellow with Americans United for Life and a columnist

for National Review Online.

Dr. New, welcome back.

Oh, thanks to having me. Much appreciated.

What do we need to know about this Washington examiner's story about these studies that had been

retracted by Sage Publishing? Well, the important thing to remember is academic publishers and journal editors

are not dissinterested parties.

They're not necessarily above the frame.

You know, very often people edit these journals, the people who review papers in the journals,

these are people who support legal abortion very often.

And as such, they are often looking to accept studies that either show there's health risks

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