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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Kari Paul

Google misdirects one in 10 searches for abortion to ‘pregnancy crisis centers’

An anti-abortion pregnancy crisis center, located one block from Planned Parenthood, in San Antonio, Texas.
An anti-abortion pregnancy crisis center, located one block from Planned Parenthood, in San Antonio, Texas. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

One in 10 Google searches for abortion services in US “trigger states”, where the procedure is likely to become illegal if the US supreme court overturns Roe v Wade, are being misdirected to clinics known as “pregnancy crisis centers” that do not actually provide care, according to a new study.

After a leak revealed the US supreme court is on the verge of overturning the landmark abortion rights law Roe v Wade, attention has turned to “trigger law” states that would ban abortion immediately if the decades-old decision is undone.

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