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Social Media's Impact On Abortion

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Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, continues to be a highly controversial and divisive issue in American society. The media has played a critical role in shaping public discourse on this issue. The way Roe v. Wade is represented in the media can have a significant impact on the public's perception of abortion and, ultimately, women's rights to access safe and legal abortion services. Social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter have emerged as important spaces for discussions around reproductive rights, including the right to access abortion.
TikTok has become a platform where young people can share their opinions on various social issues, including reproductive …show more content…

She uses her platform to educate her followers about the harmful effects of abortion restrictions and encourages them to support reproductive rights organizations. Her videos have been viewed millions of times, indicating the significant impact social media can have in shaping public discourse on controversial issues.
However, TikTok is also used as a platform for anti-abortion activists to spread misinformation and propaganda. For example, a TikTok user named @hawtjesus creates videos that compare abortion to the Holocaust and encourages her followers to support anti-abortion organizations. Such content spreads fear and stigma around abortion, contributing to the marginalization of women who seek abortions and ultimately threatening their right to access safe and legal …show more content…

Anti-abortion activists and organizations also use Instagram to spread misinformation and shame those seeking abortion services. For example, the account @liveactionorg shares misleading information about abortion, claiming it is harmful to women's health and promoting the idea that abortion is murder. These false claims contribute to the stigma surrounding abortion and can impact women's ability to access safe and legal abortion services.
Twitter has also become a forum for discussions about Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights. Reproductive rights advocates use the platform to share information about reproductive healthcare, call attention to restrictions on abortion access, and advocate for policies that support women's reproductive rights. For example, the account @NARAL shares information about reproductive health and rights and advocates for pro-choice policies at the local, state, and national levels.
However, Twitter is also a platform for anti-abortion activists to spread misinformation and propaganda. For example, the account @LiveAction shares false information about abortion, including the debunked claim that abortion causes breast cancer. These false claims not only spread misinformation but can also contribute to the stigmatization of abortion and the marginalization of women who seek abortion

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Charlotte Taft once said “Women who have abortions do so because they value life and because they take very seriously the responsibilities that come not just with birth, but with nurturing a human being”. The Editorial Board at The New York Times believes in this statement as well. The Editorial Board published an editorial on June 27, 2016 titled “A major Victory for Abortion Rights”. The article published, is about a change in Texas 's anti-abortion law and is intended for woman who can or will bear children. The editorial was created to persuade these women that if another woman who is pregnant and cannot keep the unborn child or does not want to keep the child, that these women should have the right to abort the embryo or fetus legally.

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An additional argument for these ultrasound laws that AUL puts forward is that “women will feel bonded to their children after seeing them on the ultrasound screen” and once that bond is formed “a woman no longer feels ambivalent toward her pregnancy and actually begins to feel invested in her unborn child” (AUL, 2013, p.3). The abortion-rights counter argument comes from organizations like the Guttmacher Institute that claims that these ultrasound laws are a “perversion of medical ethics in general and the informed consent process in particular” and they will not have a substantial impact on reducing abortion rates as viewing the ultrasound will not persuade the woman to forego the abortion (Benson Gold, 2009). Other abortion advocates and providers argue that viewing an ultrasound might cause psychological harm to the woman seeking the abortion and they would like to protect the women from such pain (Graham, Ankrett, & Killick,

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“It has been speculated that ultrasound viewing will dissuade women from having an abortion.” However, a recent study shows that is not true. Analysis of data from a large urban abortion provider shows that when 15,575 patients seeking an abortion were given the option to view ultrasound images, 42.5% opted to do so. Those that opted to see the images terminated their pregnancy 98.4% of the time, those that chose not to, 99% of the

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This news story is about a young woman that decided to create a twitter hash tag that is called “Shout Your Abortion”. The purpose of this hash tag was for women to speak out about their abortions because of the pandemonium with Planned Parenthood clinic right now, which is stated in the article that “Congress investigates Planned Parenthood and debates cutting off its funding because of undercover videos showing officials of the group’s discussing providing fetal tissue for research” (Lewin). Not many women speak out about their abortions because some people associate it with murder. It’s thought that if more women that have had abortions speak out it may shine a different light on the negativity abortion is made out to be so funding for Planned Parenthood won’t stop and abortion will stay legal.

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Women who are victims of rape will always be in remembrance of their terrifying experience, which sometimes result in neglect and unfair treatment of the child due to the woman’s rape trauma syndrome. Women who are not financially stable that are pregnant and oppose abortion live in poverty. If abortions were banned it would increase illegal abortions which have critical effect to the woman’s health. Statistics estimate that the risk of death from an abortion is 0.6 in 100,000. The risk of death childbirth is 14 times higher, 8.8 in 100,000.

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“It’s real easy to say you’re 100% against abortion when you’ll never have to make that decision.” - Anonymous. Women everyday have to make that decision, to decide whether or not to have an abortion, but the catch is most of those women are in circumstances where they cannot gain access to an abortion. “Approximately 25% of the world's population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws” (Abortion..) Women in 74 different countries who have, intentionally or unintentionally, fallen pregnant are not allowed to have an abortion. For many people the idea of not having complete and utter control over their body is unfathomable, as it should be.

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In this day and age, our society is bombarded with many different stigmas and values. When these values are double-crossed, it is hard to run away from the shunning of society. In the case of abortion, that is not such a bad thing. About 78.4% of the United States practices Christianity, and 23.9% of those Christians

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In the article, “The Abortion Clinic Across the Street”, Kathryn Joyce accounts these “sidewalk consolers” and the tactics they use to enforce reproductive oppression. Some of the strategies the “sidewalk consolers” use are, “Providing misleading information about women pregnancy status or due date, or suggest unproven links between abortion and cancer, infertility and suicide” (Joyce 427). This misinformation may make pregnant women feel that they have no choice but to have the baby. A reproductive justice framework works to relieve these feelings. Planned Parenthood offers support and services to help with an unwanted pregnancy as well as medically accurate information about the results of receiving an abortion.

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It left them sick, made them unable to have anymore children and in some serious cases resulted in their deaths, and even after so much suffering many women remained pregnant. Yet, not only was it the controversial practice of abortions that Planned Parenthood was offering, but also contraceptives that ultimately eliminated a vast need for abortions as well. Their steady supplying of contraceptives and the organization’s goal to educate women about safe sex helped lower not only teen pregnancies but unwanted ones as

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Media bias has influenced the thoughts of readers by providing misinformation towards hard-hitting topics such as abortion. Misinformation deliberately delivers false information to persuade readers of a particular idea. The abortion discussion, the debate between whether women should have abortions or not, has been influenced greatly by media. Strong advocates for either pro-choice or pro-life use media to persuade readers and viewers with their own biased opinions. In the article The Rights of a Woman Do Not Outweigh the Rights of a Child, the article explains how supporters of abortion believe that the unborn baby has less rights than the mother.

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A print advertisement by the National Abortion Federation (NAF) claims that “77% of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant.” Due to the facts and figures presented, viewers will easily understand and remember the message delivered. However, the claim lacks credibility and uses a red-herring fallacy to draw away from the main point of the issue: the legal status of abortion, instead accentuating an unrelated point with the people who believe abortion should stay illegal. The rhetoric simply does not weigh enough in response to comparing numbers to human life.

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Founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, the controversial federation known as Planned Parenthood continues to help millions of people internationally to resolve a variety of health problems. Because Planned Parenthood provides abortions, the government of the United States questions if it should continue to fund the clinic. However, there are several reasons, such as abortions, cancer screenings, and vaccines, that give rise to the federal subsidization of Planned Parenthood. Life does not always follows a person’s agenda, and Planned Parenthood knows that, which is the main reason it performs abortions. In 2005, a website named Guttmatcher Institute collected data concerning the women who request abortions from approximately 38 different

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