Opinion: Listen: How the Dobbs decision could affect how and where clinical trials are conducted

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade opened the door to allow states to ban or severely restrict abortion. But as biotech CEO Aoife Brennan and her colleagues are coming to realize, it will also affect how — and perhaps where — clinical trials are conducted.

Pregnancy tests are an important, and sometimes required, part of clinical research, a way to ensure that an experimental drug does not harm a fetus. If a participant in a clinical trial becomes pregnant, that information is recorded and the researchers are required to follow up with the participant to understand if the drug affected the pregnancy. It’s a simple process, but one that will be immensely complicated by the court’s Dobbs decision.

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