social media. Abortion misinformation can impact public opinion, access to abortion services and policy-making. Misinformation can also divert pregnant...

spreading COVID-19 misinformation. The spread of COVID-19 misinformation by governments has also been significant. Commercial scams have claimed to offer at-home...

Misinformation related to 5G technology is widespread in many countries of the world. The spreading of false information and conspiracy theories has also...

Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. Misinformation can exist without specific malicious intent; disinformation is distinct in that...

Misinformation in the Israel–Hamas war refers to the dissemination of false, misleading or unsubstantiated information during the Israel–Hamas war. Much...

Abortion in Europe varies considerably between countries and territories due to differing national laws and policies on its legality, availability of...

access to abortion. There are widely different abortion laws depending on state. From the American Revolution to the mid-19th century abortion was not...

anti-abortion movement (also called the pro-life movement or right-to-life movement) is a movement in the United States that opposes induced abortion and...

physicians certify that the abortion will be done to prevent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman; a risk to the life of the pregnant...

presented as the number of abortions, the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44), and the abortion ratio. The Guttmacher Institute...

pregnancy poses an important danger to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman. In the case that the abortion is because of a rape counseling...

Christianity and abortion have a long and complex history. There is no direct reference to abortion in the Bible, nor any explicit condemnation of abortion. The lack...

Abortion is illegal in the Philippines. The constitutional provision that "[The State] shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the...

medical abortion, also known as medication abortion or non-surgical abortion, occurs when drugs (medication) are used to bring about an abortion. Medical...

An unsafe abortion is a life-threatening procedure. It includes self-induced abortions, abortions in unhygienic conditions, and abortions performed by...

commentators. The Quran does not directly address intentional abortion, leaving greater discretion to the laws of individual countries. Although opinions among...

Misinformation related to immunization and the use of vaccines circulates in mass media and social media in spite of the fact that there is no serious...

jurisdictions. Access to abortion varies between the states and territories: Surgical abortions are readily available on request within the first 22 to 24 weeks of...

Abortion in Japan is allowed under a term limit of 22 weeks for endangerment to the health of the pregnant woman, economic hardship, or rape. Chapter...

termination of pregnancy, also referred to as third trimester abortion, describes the termination of pregnancy by induced abortion during a late stage of gestation...

abortion—the deliberate termination of a pregnancy—has been known since ancient times. Various methods have been used to perform or attempt abortion,...

A self-induced abortion (also called a self-managed abortion, or sometimes a self-induced miscarriage) is an abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (Pub. L.Tooltip...

Abortion in New Zealand is available within the framework of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which entirely eliminated the criminal status of abortion...

Abortion in the United Kingdom is de facto available under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967 in Great Britain and the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No...

Abortion in Canada is legal throughout pregnancy and is publicly funded as a medical procedure under the combined effects of the federal Canada Health...

preempting it with good information, strategically reducing or removing misinformation, and teaching digital literacy. The RAND Corporation coined the name...

services because of biases or misinformation around how laws governing sex selection, child sexual abuse and abortion intersect A client profile study...

been interpreted to permit an abortion necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman. In some cases, this exception has been extended to cases where the...

several contrasting senses of factoid: "factoid: accusatory: misinformation purporting to be factual; or, a phony statistic." "factoid: neutral: seemingly...