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The spread of medical misinformation on social media has resulted in misconceptions about the safety and efficacy of hormonal birth-control methods.

The Georgetown University Global Health Institute invited four reproductive health and justice experts to weigh in on the human rights impacts of abortion bans in the United States at an April 18 online seminar.  Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law co-sponsored the talk, along with Ipas, an international organization that seeks to...

Social media, particularly TikTok, has amplified anecdotes on a previously unfathomable scale.

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Hospitals are required to stabilize anyone experiencing a medical emergency. Two lawsuits question whether that includes performing an abortion, despite state laws.

Danielle Campoamor writes that the war on birth control is already here, and the GOP’s battle plan relies on the same tactic that paved the way for Roe v. Wade to fall: Disinformation.

“At the end of the day, we want people to feel empowered to choose the method that’s going to work the best for them. But we also feel like they don’t need to be traumatized in the process of getting that method,” chief medical officer says.

Search for “birth control” on TikTok or Instagram and a cascade of misleading videos vilifying hormonal contraception appear: Young women blaming their weight gain on the pill. Right-wing commentators claiming that some birth control can lead to infertility. Testimonials complaining of depression and anxiety.

Doctors and patient advocates are alarmed over the possibility of the Supreme Court tightening access to the abortion medications mifepristone.