Google results for abortion clinics are misleading and politically fraught
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#62JHF)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Maps continues to show results for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) when users search for a nearby abortion clinic. A new analysis from Bloomberg shows that CPCs make up about a fourth of the top 10 search results on average in all 50 states and Washington, DC.
Unlike legitimate abortion clinics, CPCs don't actually provide abortions. They instead attempt to dissuade people from going through with the procedure and often use misinformation to make their case. For example, CPCs may falsely claim that receiving an abortion will put someone at a higher risk for breast cancer or may say it makes it harder to get pregnant in the future.
CPCs accounted for five or more of Google's top 10 search results in 13 states
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