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One in 10 Google searches for abortion services in US “trigger states”, where the procedure is likely to become illegal if the US supreme court overturns Roe v Wade, are being misdirected to clinics known as “pregnancy crisis centers” that do not actually provide care, according to a new study.
After a leak revealed the US supreme court is on the verge of overturning the landmark abortion rights law Roe v Wade, attention has turned to “trigger law” states that would ban abortion immediately if the decades-old decision is undone.
In more than a dozen such trigger-law states, researchers found, 11% of Google search results for “abortion clinic near me” and “abortion pill” led to “crisis pregnancy centers”, according to misinformation research non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
These clinics market themselves as healthcare providers but have a “shady, harmful agenda”, according to the reproductive health non-profit Planned Parenthood, offering no health services and aiming instead to dissuade people from having abortions.
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I wonder how they are doing there stats? Did they setup cherry pot sites for it or are they looking for how many times they were clicked or shown in search results. How many top 10 impressions? Seriously, WTF, the fact that this is news is disturbing. Google does not just show all anti abortion sites as all the links on a search ever. This is totally ridiculous news and Guardian you should be ashamed of yourselves. People should be able to make informed choices seeing both sides of every issue and not expect Google to give the first answer correct every time. Just saying....
After a leak revealed the US supreme court is on the verge of overturning the landmark abortion rights law Roe v Wade, attention has turned to “trigger law” states that would ban abortion immediately if the decades-old decision is undone.
In more than a dozen such trigger-law states, researchers found, 11% of Google search results for “abortion clinic near me” and “abortion pill” led to “crisis pregnancy centers”, according to misinformation research non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
These clinics market themselves as healthcare providers but have a “shady, harmful agenda”, according to the reproductive health non-profit Planned Parenthood, offering no health services and aiming instead to dissuade people from having abortions.
Google misdirects one in 10 searches for abortion to ‘pregnancy crisis centers’
In US ‘trigger states’ where the procedure may soon be illegal, searchers may be sent to centers that do not actually provide care
www.theguardian.com
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I wonder how they are doing there stats? Did they setup cherry pot sites for it or are they looking for how many times they were clicked or shown in search results. How many top 10 impressions? Seriously, WTF, the fact that this is news is disturbing. Google does not just show all anti abortion sites as all the links on a search ever. This is totally ridiculous news and Guardian you should be ashamed of yourselves. People should be able to make informed choices seeing both sides of every issue and not expect Google to give the first answer correct every time. Just saying....