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Roe v. Wade: Abortion misinformation rises following leak, data shows

By Lewis Dunn
May 22, 2022
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As if the internet wasn’t already fertile enough ground for misinformation about abortion, new data suggests that intentionally misleading and false information has been pouring in following the leak of draft Roe v. Wade in the United States.

A study conducted in May by Zignal Laboratories and shared with Global shows there were 186,046 “less reliable mentions” of abortions online in the three days following the escape, from both left and right accounts. That’s double the number of times abortion was mentioned online in the previous month.

On TikTok, videos tagged #roevwade and #abortionban flourished, some providing unfounded advice on home abortions, with more than 200,000 likes.

A TikTok video tagged #RoevWade informs viewers about the “safest” home abortions. The social media site flagged the video with a warning: “Participating in this activity could hurt you or others.”


Noor Ibrahim on TikTok


While misinformation is unintentionally spread, abortion rights advocates in Canada say others have a clear agenda to deceive.

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“One of the biggest barriers to abortion access in Canada is actually misinformation,” said Tasia Alexopoulos, national spokesperson for Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC). “When we (get) misinformation, what we see is a lot of playing on emotion and not fact.”

Alexopoulos said Canada’s biggest disinformation megaphones come from crisis pregnancy centers (CPC)large lobby organizations and anti-choice politicians.


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CPCs are clinics posing as fake abortion providers that spread abortion myths to women and pregnant women in crisis. Fake abortion clinics in Canada outnumber abortion providersaccording to the ARCC.

Many of the misinformation circulating amid the Roe v Wade discussion are the same recycled myths Canada has seen for years, Alexopoulos said. For example, it designates a unsubstantiated links Between abortion and breast cancer, abortion and depression, and Canadian women can have an abortion one day before the due date.

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Conversations about Roe c. Wade south of the border agitated the Canadians. During the week the project leaked, Canadians googled “ban on abortion” and “home abortionmore than they have ever done in the past 12 months, according to Google Trends.

Searches for “abortion ban” in Canada peaked during the week of May 1-7, the biggest jump in a 12-month period.


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The largest number of searches came from Manitoba, one of the weakest abortion providers in Canada (about four per province). Research from New Brunswick, which has regulations to only fund abortions performed in hospital and approved by two doctors, came third.

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“Misinformation and misinformation can be very detrimental to people seeking an abortion because this decision is very urgent,” Alexopoulos said.

Poll by Maru Public Opinion in May showed that 78% of Canadians want abortion rights strengthened by federal laws. While Canada is a predominantly pro-choice country, the women’s rights advocate Dana Stefov says anti-abortion movements are “alive and well” here too, and there are active movements to elect pro-life MPs to the House of Commons.

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“What we need to be concerned about are the anti-choice movements that are infiltrating Canada from the United States. It would be naïve to ignore the impact of these moves on Canada,” Stefov told Global on Zoom. ” We saw [disinformation] for at least a decade if not more, it intensified.”

Stefov said that while she has seen misinformation spread across the country since the Roe v Wade leak, Canadians need to “put a lot of the desperation into context.” The country has come a very long way in the fight for reproductive rights and has made one of the greatest commitments to address neglected areas of sexual and reproductive rights program, she says.

Still, major obstacles remain such as the geographic distance and high cost of travel to clinics in other provinces, contraceptives not covered by many provincial health plans, and inadequate sex education in schools.

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As the discussion continues, a Trent University professor says political parties like the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP capitalized on the panic ahead of the Ontario election.

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“I see political parties looking to encourage their base to mobilize and vote based on this leak,” said Catherine Norlock, Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics. “It’s predicated on confusion about whether or not abortion is legal in Canada, and legal in every province…I think it’s downright misinformation to say there’s something our constituents here in Canada must be newly aware that abortion rights here have not changed. ”

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Although Canada is in a very different position than the United States, Norlock said it was imperative that Canadians pay attention to what is happening south of the border, “because we are not shelter from a regression of rights”.

Amid the turmoil, the public can also hear stories about why women “need” an array of health services, she said, “without being asked if she is a good person or a bad person, and without receiving political advice designed to intimidate or scare women.”

The ARCC told Global they are not worried about DIY abortions in Canada despite the slew of age-old misinformation. But Norlock said he still fears that “desperate people will turn to people they see as trustworthy and try whatever they hear.”

The three experts say Canadians must express to their governments and local MPs their continued support for reproductive rights, even if it “does not seem as urgent” as it does in the United States.

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“What the science and the evidence tell us is that abortion rates don’t go down when abortion is criminalized. What is happening is an increase in unsafe abortions.


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