Shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments in a location mifepristone case, researchers are suing an intellectual publishing company for retracting three important reports that exposed the risks of the country’s most widely used pregnancy program.
Ten of the scientists who produced the three academic documents filed a lawsuit against Sage Publications for publishing what they called “pretextual and unfair” misstatements of their results on the contraception pill this year. One of the research in question, which the lawsuit information is” the next most-read article” in the publication’s history, particularly determined mifepristone is responsible for a , 500 percentage increase , in abortion-related emergency room visits.
The 2019, 2021, and 2022 papers originally passed peer review for publication without a hitch. The editor-in-chief of Sage’s Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology ( HSRME) journal even emailed Dr. James Studnicki, the lead author of the 2021 and 2022 papers, to commend him for his “fine contribution]s ]”, according to the petition.
In February 2024, however, Sage’s tune changed over a “reader’s concern” that the authors ‘ links to pro-life organizations “present conflicts of interest that the authors should have disclosed as such in the article”.
Abortion activist researchers have a lot of papers on the subject that are unresearched. Yet Sage, after what it called an “independent review”, ultimately followed through with the retractions.
” Sage’s wrongdoing has been causing enormous and incalculable harm to the Authors ‘ professional reputations, as Sage intended. Due to Sage’s retractions, other authors and the media have attacked the Authors and their research, and they have been denied by new research proposals that have been inexplicably rejected by other publications who now fear associating with them. The Authors have years — even decades — of fruitful research ahead of them, but they are now being treated as pariahs”, the lawsuit, shepherded by Alliance Defending Freedom and Consovoy McCarthy PLLC attorneys, states.
Studnicki’s position on the HSRME journal editorial board, which according to the lawsuit “violated California contract, tort, and civil rights law,” was even removed from him.
Charlotte Lozier Institute ( CLI), whose scholars were responsible for the suddenly scrutinized paper, rejected Sage’s accusations, noting that the publisher has” no valid objection to their findings and has shown no evidence of any major errors, miscalculations, or falsehoods”.
” The authors fully complied with Sage’s conflict disclosure requirements”, CLI said in a statement. ” They reported their organizational affiliations, as well as CLI funding of the study, as part of the submission for publication. In fact, the ER study includes 10 mentions of CLI and the authors ‘ professional standing or relationship there.
CLI’s objections to the “unprecedented attack on our research”, however, did n’t stop pro-abortion corporate media from quickly amplifying Sage’s decision. Numerous outlets used it to question U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s April 2023 decision, which incorrectly approved the Food and Drug Administration’s mifepristone for chemical abortions for widespread use without examining the risks and harms and fatalities it has on women and infants.
The researchers have been attempting arbitration for months, but the lawsuit alleges Sage purposefully sluggishly delayed the outcome by making extra-contractual demands.
” An even more alarming development is that Sage has attempted to press the Authors into reneging on their discovery rights unilaterally. Sage’s egregious actions require this Court’s intervention to compel arbitration”, the lawsuit concludes.
The petition comes shortly after Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, tried to blame pro-life organizations and pro-life policies for the deaths of women brought on by complications linked to the abortion pill.
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University with a political science major and a journalism minor. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.