This will be a blow to the anti-abortion side of the Supreme Court hearing March 26...
...(if SCOTUS members understand what a scholarly retraction means).
@mimarek importantly, this doesn't actually have much impact on the specific question before the Court.
The question before the Supreme Court is not whether such studies have scientific merit. The Court is not in a position to weigh in on scientific questions. It's not their job.
The question before the Court is whether legal processes were followed, regardless of the science the processes may have considered.
Were the corrects public notices issued? Did the right officials sign the right forms? Were timelines properly indicated in the public record? Those are the sort of questions the Supreme Court will grapple with in their review, and none of it has anything to do with scholarly publication.
