An advocacy group suing the federal government in a bid to limit nationwide access to the abortion drug mifepristone has wrestled for a decade to conceal the influence its religious beliefs exert over its public policy pursuits. The doctor-focused organization, which calls itself the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), wants to ban abortion, affirmative care for transgender youth, and the parental rights of non-hetero couples
ACPeds has long described itself, publicly and in court, as a “secular, scientific medical association.” But hundreds of confidential records leaked last month raise serious doubts about the veracity of those claims. A cache of more than 10,000 files inadvertently exposed by the group’s website, as first reported
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