Content warning: This post is about abortion.
Abortion discussions online, like so many personal and emotional topics, are rife with misinformation.
Here we correct 5 big misconceptions we’ve seen floating around since the leaked US Supreme Court decision made abortion access more uncertain in the United States:
- The decision does not affect access to abortions in Canada.
- Both childbirth and abortion come with risks, but in general the risks are higher for childbirth.
- Abortion has no effect on breast cancer risk.
- Abortion has no effect on future fertility.
- Abortions are very common, and you probably know someone who has had one.
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Content warning: This thread is about abortion.
— ScienceUpFirst | LaScienced’Abord (@ScienceUpFirst) May 17, 2022
Abortion discussions online, like so many personal and emotional topics, are rife with misinformation.
So here are 5 abortion myths, busted.#ScienceUpFirst
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Sources
- History of Abortion in Canada
- The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States
- Abortion services in Canada: access and safety
- Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk
- Abortion Care
- Can an Abortion Affect Your Fertility?
- Quantifying the global burden of morbidity due to unsafe abortion: Magnitude in hospital-based studies and methodological issues
- Abortion Statistics in Canada
- https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710000501
- Induced abortion in Canada 1974-2005: trends over the first generation with legal access
