Mis- & Disinformation Resources

Quick reads:

• Misinformation, Disinformation, & Malinformation (Government Resource, Ontario County, NY)

• Misinformation, Disinformation, & Malinformation: A Guide (Princeton Library)

Scholarly resources:

• Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics  (Kuo & Marwick, 2021)

• Defining and measuring scientific misinformation (Southwell et al., 2022)

• Systematic literature review on the spread of health-related misinformation on social media (Wang et al., 2019)

• The illusory truth effect: A review of how repetition increases belief in misinformation (Udry & Barber, 2024)

• The next infodemic: Abortion misinformation (Pogoto et al., 2024)

Quick reads:

• Contemporary Comstockery: Legal Restrictions on Medication Abortion (Thompson & O’Donnell, 2022)

• The Violent History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (Southern Poverty Law Center)

• They’re Doctors. They’re Also Incredibly Effective—And Dangerous—Anti-Abortion Activists. (Mother Jones)

• Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ works (The Guardian)

• 7 Days Inside an Anti-Abortion Summer Camp Training the Next Generation of Activists (VICE)

Scholarly resources:

• Deception by obfuscation: Studnicki et al.’s retracted longitudinal cohort study of emergency room utilization following abortion (Upadhyay & Atkins, 2024)

Quick reads:

• Key dates in mifepristone’s history (Ohio Capital Journal)

• The Forgotten—And Incredibly Important—History of the Abortion Pill (Mother Jones)

Scholarly resources:

• Abortion: Termination of early pregnancy with RU-486 (Mifepristone) (Congressional Research Service)

Quick reads:

• Mifepristone: Questions and Answers With Rollins Researchers (Rollins School of Public Health)

• Analysis of Medication Abortion Risk and the FDA report “Mifepristone US Post-Marketing Adverse Events Summary through 12/31/2022.” (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health)

Scholarly resources:

• Incidence of emergency department visits and complications after abortion (Upadhyay et al., 2015)

• Aligning mifepristone regulation with evidence: Driving policy change using 15 years of excellent safety data (Cleland & Smith, 2015)

• The Growing Importance of Self-Managed and Telemedicine Abortion in the United States: Medically Safe, but Legal Risk Remains (Skuster & Moseson, 2022)

• Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in the USA (Upadhyay et al., 2024)

• Brief of Over 300 Reproductive Health Researchers as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (2024)

Scholarly resources:

• The History of Abortion Law in the United States (Our Bodies Ourselves)

• Medication Abortion Exceptionalism (Donley, 2022)

• Understanding the Impacts of the Supreme Court Case FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (Espey et al., 2024)