The report that Kennedy cited was posted late last month to the website of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank focused on “pushing back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives,” according to its website. The study’s authors, Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC’s director of data analysis, and Ryan Anderson, the organization’s president, are not health experts, and neither seems to have a record of publishing scientific research through peer review. Their methods deviated wildly from what is standard in the world of health research, and so, predictably, did their conclusions: In sharp contrast to dozens of trials conducted around the globe over decades, the EPPC report determined that mifepristone is a danger to women.
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