Fake News Has Been Targeting Women’s Reproductive Rights for Years
Five states require that doctors give patients information suggesting a link between abortion and the occurrence of breast cancer, a link that the American Cancer Society and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have refuted. In other states, physicians are forced to offer other medical information that they know to be false about abortion potentially causing infertility, depression, suicidal thoughts, and PTSD. If they do not offer this false information, doctors risk losing their licenses.
“I can’t think of any other form of medicine where we are told to make things up,” said Adam Jacobs, head of the family-planning division at Mt. Sinai in New York. “It’s okay to do this only with regard to women’s reproductive health.”
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