{"title":"The Safety of Self-managed Abortion: A Dearth of Good-quality Evidence and a Wealth of Misrepresentation.","authors":"Calum Miller","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-managed abortion has been particularly prominent in recent discussions of abortion, with the rise of telemedicine abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic and the reality of self-managed illegal abortion in pro-life states following the overturning of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>. There has likewise been much political concern about misinformation and fake news circulated in the media. This article highlights how misinformation and poor quality studies have been used to make implausible claims regarding the safety of telemedicine and the number of deaths from unsafe abortion where abortion is illegal. This puts women's health and lives at risk by authorizing unsafe medical practice and poorly evidenced policy decisions regarding abortion and emergency obstetric care.</p>","PeriodicalId":48665,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Law & Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Issues in Law & Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Self-managed abortion has been particularly prominent in recent discussions of abortion, with the rise of telemedicine abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic and the reality of self-managed illegal abortion in pro-life states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. There has likewise been much political concern about misinformation and fake news circulated in the media. This article highlights how misinformation and poor quality studies have been used to make implausible claims regarding the safety of telemedicine and the number of deaths from unsafe abortion where abortion is illegal. This puts women's health and lives at risk by authorizing unsafe medical practice and poorly evidenced policy decisions regarding abortion and emergency obstetric care.
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Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer reviewed professional journal published semiannually. Founded in 1985, ILM is co-sponsored by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. and the Watson Bowes Research Institute.
Issues is devoted to providing technical and informational assistance to attorneys, health care professionals, educators and administrators on legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from health care decisions. Its subscribers include law libraries, medical libraries, university libraries, court libraries, attorneys, physicians, university professors and other scholars, primarily in the U.S. and Canada, but also in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.
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