{"id":1534718,"date":"2022-07-01T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534718"},"modified":"2022-07-01T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:20:38","slug":"activists-launch-panicked-social-media-campaign-after-roe-here-are-six-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-launch-panicked-social-media-campaign-after-roe-here-are-six-misconceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Launch Panicked Social Media Campaign After Roe \u2013 Here Are Six Misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factivists-launch-panicked-social-media-campaign-after-roe-here-are-six-misconceptions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Misconceptions and misinformation about the state of abortion in the United States have escaped on social media as abortion supporters react to the overturn of Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Panicked activists insist on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and other platforms that authorities will track women through their period apps or that doctors will refuse to help women who have ectopic pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>And over and over, activists insist: \u201cWomen will die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1. Overturning Roe v. Wade Ended Abortion In The U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Many on the Right and Left have misunderstood what Roe v. Wade actually entails, assuming that overturning the monumental Supreme Court decision ends abortion in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the overturning of Roe declared that there is no constitutional right to abortion and sent the power to decide abortion laws back to the states.<\/p>\n<p>In South Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma,, Alabama, Tennessee,, and Ohio, abortion bans have been in effect since Roe v. Wade was overturned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/24\/abortion-state-laws-criminalization-roe\/\">according to the Washington Post<\/a>. South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Iowa, West Virginia, and Utah are likely to enact abortion bans soon, most delayed by litigation, according to the publication.<\/p>\n<p>2. Removing Ectopic Pregnancies Is Banned<\/p>\n<p>Viral social media <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elizabethlgr\/status\/1521485208196993031\">posts claim<\/a> that \u201cthe treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is abortion\u201d and that such treatment has now been banned in many states.<\/p>\n<p>But even the Planned Parenthood Federation of America admits that \u201ctreating an ectopic pregnancy isn\u2019t the same thing as getting an abortion.\u201d\u201dAbortion is a medical procedure that when done safely, ends a pregnancy that\u2019s in your uterus,\u201d Planned Parenthood\u2019s website states. \u201cEctopic pregnancies are unsafely outside of your uterus (usually in the fallopian tubes), and are removed with a medicine called methotrexate or through a laparoscopic surgical procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medical procedures for abortions are not the same as the medical procedures for an ectopic pregnancy,\u201d the Planned Parenthood website adds.<\/p>\n<p>3. Miscarriages Will Be Prosecuted As Abortions<\/p>\n<p>Social media users have also spread the misconception that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megreyes_\/status\/1540360303581360128?s=20&#038;t=mt9B387mmIYmDdr0wezS_Q\">miscarriages<\/a> will be prosecuted as abortions. This is fear mongering, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conservmillen\/status\/1541847237470322689?s=20&#038;t=jBRGupdqWUen62kfUTqvoQ\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the Lozier Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clearly the standard of care for any physician to intervene in a pregnancy that presents a risk to the mother\u2019s life,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/fact-sheet-medical-indications-for-separating-a-mother-and-her-unborn-child\/\">institute says<\/a>. \u201cLaws restricting induced abortion will not prohibit such an intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether abortion is available, or whether a state or country has restricted abortion \u2013 even late-term abortions after a baby can feel pain from the procedure, \u2013 if a mother is facing medical risks from a pregnancy, her health can, should, and by medical standards must, be addressed,\u201d the Lozier Institute adds.<\/p>\n<p>4. Birth Control And Gay Marriage Are Next<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats were quick to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/1541520746840727553?s=20&#038;t=mt9B387mmIYmDdr0wezS_Q\">purport<\/a> that Republicans will not stop at Roe v. Wade, warning Americans that the GOP will next target birth control and LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p>These lawmakers are perhaps drawing on Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/24\/court-should-reconsider-gay-marriage-birth-control-clarence-thomas\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow\">suggestion<\/a> in the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade that \u201cin future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court\u2019s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While these are cases that deal with contraception, gay sex, and gay marriage, and this was a suggestion from a Supreme Court justice, birth control, gay marriage, and gay sex do not face imminent attacks from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>5. Authorities Will Track You Through Your Period Tracker<\/p>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/highlights\/17842037714804202\/\">urged<\/a> her Instagram followers from red states to delete their period tracking apps, suggesting that authorities would target women based on data from these apps.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez is not alone in her concerns \u2014 Biden himself has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/06\/24\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-supreme-court-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade\/\">claimed<\/a> that \u201cextremist governors and state legislators\u201d will track data on \u201cher apps,\u201d and many social media users have expressed the same anxieties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurn off those period trackers, red state ladies,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid\/status\/1540405949374005253?s=20&#038;t=jBRGupdqWUen62kfUTqvoQ\">tweeted<\/a> Joy-Ann Reid. \u201cYou live in Gilead now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous major media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/28\/why-us-woman-are-deleting-their-period-tracking-apps\">have also reported<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkbibliophile\/status\/1540345161955385345\">many women<\/a> are deleting their period tracker apps, citing concerns about data privacy. But there is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Evie_Magazine\/status\/1541117582912143362?s=20&#038;t=jBRGupdqWUen62kfUTqvoQ\">not any apparent evidence<\/a> to suggest that lawmakers seek to use period tracking data to investigate women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first I\u2019ve heard of that,\u201d Texas State Sen. Brian Hughes, the author of the state\u2019s much discussed heartbeat bill, told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a \u2018no\u2019 on that,\u201d he added of lawmakers using period app data to track women\u2019s menstrual cycles.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/period-tracker-apps-aim-for-anonymity-following-roe-v-wade-decision-11656202089\">attempted to link<\/a> menstrual data to government investigations, noting that in 2019, Missouri\u2019s health department said that it tracked the menstrual cycles of some Planned Parenthood patients.<\/p>\n<p>But the publication <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5713804\/missouri-health-official-planned-parenthood-periods\/\">failed to note<\/a> that state officials were investigating the last Planned Parenthood for numerous health violations, including failing to report botched or failed abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/missouri-health-director-tracked-menstrual-periods-planned-parenthood-patients-n1073701\">had tracked the menstrual cycles<\/a> of some Planned Parenthood patients to identify who had undergone a failed abortion. The state ultimately found four patients who had failed abortions and had to return to the Planned Parenthood more than once.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery prompted the health department to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/missouri-health-director-tracked-menstrual-periods-planned-parenthood-patients-n1073701\">cancel<\/a> the Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion license, citing \u201cgrave concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misconceptions and misinformation about the state of abortion in the United States have escaped on social media as abortion supporters react to the overturn of Roe v. Wade. 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