WaPo ‘Fact Checker’: Abortion Pill’s High Injury Rate Is No Big Deal Because It Has A Warning Label
Abortion,Mifepristone,Abortion Pills,Anti-Abortion,Pro-Life,Pro-Choice,Data,Washington Post
The Washington Post’s resident “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler ran circles around himself this week when he tried to undermine the most comprehensive U.S. study on the drug regimen responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions.
Kessler appears to have searched high and low for a crumb of evidence he could use to discredit a recently released Ethics and Public Policy Center study showing 10.9 percent of women who take mifepristone will suffer serious, sometimes life-threatening side effects. Instead, he ended up affirming that the data benchmarks that give the study legitimacy align with those on the mifepristone label...
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