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Jessica Glenza in New York

How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court

A young white right hand, palm up and a Band-Aid on the index finger, holds a white pill, while the left hand pinches as if to pick it up. Below is a table with a kelly green file folder.
A patient prepares to take mifepristone at a clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, on 12 October 2022. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

A pharmacy professor who strenuously avoids heated political discussions is an unlikely candidate to get involved in a fight over abortion, particularly one as high stakes as a case now before the supreme court: the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) v the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM).

But when the professor Chris Adkins of South University in Georgia emailed his concerns about an academic article to the editors of Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology, that’s exactly what happened.

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