Googling for Abortion: How Google Mediates Access to Abortion Services— and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever

Yelena Mejova

Access to abortion in the United States is now hanging by a thread. But how do most people find abortion services? By searching for them online. In our study published earlier this year in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Social Media with Tatiana Gracyk, director of the Bioethics Program at the Cleveland State University and Ronald E. Robertson, a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory, we showed that the locations returned to Google’s search results reflect current inequalities in abortion access. If these inequalities are to drastically change, the information (and lack of thereof) returned to people living in states that may outlaw this medical service could further impact already stressful, life-changing decisions.

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