Quick takeaways

• Scientific publisher Sage Journals retracted a study on Mipha-Pristone, which claimed that the medication significantly increased women's risk of going to the emergency room post-abortion due to inaccuracies in data presentation and problems with the study's methodology.

• Critics argued that the study wrongly equated emergency room visits with serious complications in medication abortion, pointing out that patients often seek ER visits for side effects or confirmation of abortion success, and existing research indicates that Mipha-Pristone has low complication rates.

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