{"id":142181,"date":"2022-07-14T00:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/doctors-worry-that-online-misinformation-will-push-abortion-seekers-toward-ineffective-dangerous-methods"},"modified":"2022-07-14T00:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:24:23","slug":"doctors-worry-that-online-misinformation-will-push-abortion-seekers-toward-ineffective-dangerous-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/doctors-worry-that-online-misinformation-will-push-abortion-seekers-toward-ineffective-dangerous-methods","title":{"rendered":"Doctors worry that online misinformation will push abortion-seekers toward ineffective, dangerous methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-worry-that-online-misinformation-will-push-abortion-seekers-toward-ineffective-dangerous-methods2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a US Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/02\/politics\/roe-v-wade-supreme-court\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">leaked<\/a> in May, Dr. Joshua Trebach noticed a disturbing turn in the online conversation around abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started seeing things on social media, things like TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, people saying \u2018oh, if Roe v. Wade does get overturned, here are some secret, sneaky ways that you can drink some tea and have an abortion,\u2019\u201d Trebach said.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned and some states are putting strict limits on abortions, there\u2019s widespread confusion about whether the procedures are available and to whom. Physicians and poison control officials say they\u2019re worried that people seeking abortions will turn to ineffective and dangerous methods shared online, potentially delaying or preventing safe, proven abortion care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a US Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade was leaked in May, Dr. Joshua Trebach noticed a disturbing turn in the online conversation around abortion. \u201cI started seeing things on social media, things like TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, people saying \u2018oh, if Roe v. Wade does get overturned, here are some secret, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}