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Health: investigation into anti-abortion movements
Health: investigation into the anti-abortion movement – (franceinfo)
Anti-abortion associations do not hesitate to use dubious arguments to convince women not to resort to abortion. A subject from Julie Calderon of the “true or false” cell.
These sites appear at the very top of search results regarding IVG. They are called: ivg.net, abortion.net or sosbebe.org. They all offer listening centers and highlight numerous testimonies from women who have experienced an abortion. So what happens when we call these listening cells? Journalist Julie Calderon, from Franceinfo’s “true or false” unit, took the test by posing as a 40-year-old woman, 2 weeks pregnant, who is strongly considering terminating her pregnancy. The interlocutor gives a guilty speech, and suggests a meeting with another person from the organization.
Offense of obstructing abortion extended to websites in 2017
During an exchange lasting almost an hour, the interlocutor multiplied the arguments to dissuade the journalist from having an abortion. These listening cells belong to associations also present on social networks. “There is a lot of shocking and dissuasive content that uses medical disinformation, disinformation about women’s health and that plays on women’s fears,” explains Cécile Simmons, research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
In 2017, the offense of obstructing abortion was extended to websites, the practices of these associations could therefore be subject to legal action.
