The Spring 2024 issue of the open access, peer-reviewed journal Issues in Law & Medicine is now available online. This edition features six articles, such as:
United Kingdom Data Deficiencies Influencing U.S. FDA Decisions – The U.S. FDA has permanently removed the in-person prescribing requirements that previously safeguarded the use of mifepristone/misoprostol medical abortions, allowing prescribing through telemedicine or on-line ordering and distribution through the mail and pharmacies, without standard pre-abortion testing. This will increase the risk of complications due to failure to adequately determine the gestational age or rule out ectopic pregnancy by ultrasound or physical exam, failure to perform labs to document whether RhoGAM is indicated, and failure to obtain appropriate informed consent to prevent unwanted abortions, among other concerns. The FDA justified this action by referencing flawed studies with significantly undercounted complications. The details of these study deficiencies are examined in this paper.
A Reanalysis of Mental Health Disorders Following First-Trimester Abortions in Denmark – In this article, Reardon reexamines a recent Danish study that concluded that abortion has no independent effect on mental health, extracting monthly and tri-monthly data for reanalysis of cumulative effects over nine- and twelve- months post-abortion. This reanalysis reveals that the Danish data is consistent with the larger body of both record-based and survey-based studies when viewed over periods of observation of at least nine months. Longer periods of observation are necessary to capture both anniversary reactions and the exhaustion of coping mechanisms which may delay observation of post-abortion effects.
Other titles include “Misleading Statements About ‘Life of the Mother’ Exceptions in Pro-life Laws Require Correction”, “United Kingdom Data Deficiencies Influencing U.S. FDA Decisions”, “International Standards and Features of Financing in the Field of Health Care and Provision of Medical Services”, and “In Vitro Fertilization, State Wrongful Death Statutes, and State Fetal Homicide Statutes: The Reaction to LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine”.
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