A medical journal withdrew an abortion reversal study after an investigation into the study discovered that technical corrections to the report are required.
The Issues in Law and Medicine journal temporarily withdrew the study, which investigates the effects of taking large doses of progesterone to offset the abortive effects of mifepristone, citing “pending technical corrections.”
The journal retracted the study after the University of San Diego — who employs two of the study’s authors — launched an investigation of its ethical approval, Retraction Watch first reported Tuesday.
The retracted study showed that women who change their minds after beginning a medical abortion have a high chance of saving their baby, The Washington Free Beacon reported in April. The study cites hundreds of cases where the treatment reversed the effects of the abortion, saving the unborn baby 64 to 68 percent of the time.
“Women who change their minds after starting a medical abortion now have a second chance at choice,” the study’s lead author, George Delgado, told the Washington Free Beacon. “Using progesterone to reverse the effects of mifepristone is effective and does not increase the risks of birth defects,” he added.
A number of women thanked the researchers for helping them save their babies. Progesterone therapy “changed my entire world by helping me that night. This is the best feeling in the world and nothing else matters. Thank you,” a participant in the study said, the Free Beacon reported.
“I just wanted to say, thank you from the bottom of my heart,” said another. (RELATED: 70 Percent Of Medicinal Abortions Are Now Reversible, Says Study)
The study had “ambiguous” wording concerning the University of San Diego’s approval of the study, university spokeswoman Pamela Payton said, BuzzFeedNews reported. Payton added that the school doesn’t want readers “to incorrectly conclude that the [school] reviewed and approved the entire study,” explaining that the university board had approved analyzing pre-existing data but not collecting it.
The retraction was due simply to “a technical problem,” and “there were no ethical issues at all,” Delgado told BuzzFeed News.
The study’s retraction comes after Republican Idaho Gov. Clement Leroy “Butch” Otter signed a law requiring doctors to provide women seeking medicinal abortions with information telling them that their abortion can be reversed if they decide to change their minds partway through the abortive process. Otter signed the law March 20 and it became effective July 1, according to The Associated Press.
The California Board of Registered Nursing also approved a class in January teaching nurses how to reverse the effects of abortion pills for women who change their mind shortly after taking them.
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