Abortion pill marketing and sourcing on twitter following Dobbs v. Jackson supreme court ruling.

Autor: McMann TJ; Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.; Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.; S-3 Research, San Diego, CA, USA., Haupt MR; Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.; Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA., Le N; Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.; Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA, USA., Meurice ME; Division of Complex Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA., Li J; S-3 Research, San Diego, CA, USA., Cuomo RE; Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.; S-3 Research, San Diego, CA, USA.; Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego - School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA., Mackey TK; Global Health Program, Department of Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.; Global Health Policy and Data Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.; S-3 Research, San Diego, CA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The European journal of contraception & reproductive health care : the official journal of the European Society of Contraception [Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care] 2024 Aug; Vol. 29 (4), pp. 139-144. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 23.
DOI: 10.1080/13625187.2024.2354868
Abstrakt: Objective: This study examines abortion-related discourse on Twitter (X) pre-and post-Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion.
Study Design: We used a custom data collection tool to collect tweets directly from Twitter using abortion-related keywords. We used the BERTopic language model and examined the top 30 retweeted and top 30 textually similar tweets from relevant topic clusters using an inductive coding approach. We also conducted statistical testing to assess potential associations between abortion themes.
Results: 166,799 unique tweets were collected from December 2020-December 2022. 464 unique tweets were coded for abortion-related themes with 154 identified as relevant. Of these, 66 tweets marketed abortion pills, 17 tweets were identified as offering consultations, and 91 tweets were relevant to self-managed abortion. All marketing and consultation tweets were posted post-Dobbs decision and 7 (7.69%) of self-managed tweets were posted pre-Dobbs versus 84 (92.30%) posted post-Dobbs. A positive association was found between tweets offering a medical consultation with tweets marketing abortion pills and discussing self-managed abortion.
Conclusion: This study detected online marketing of abortion pills, consultations and discussions about self-managed abortion following the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling. These results provide more context to the type of abortion-related information that is available online.
Databáze: MEDLINE