The Guardian: Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

11 December, 2025

This isn’t a scholarly source, but it does relate to a commonly used source for medical knowledge, Facebook, for better or for worse (in this case, worse). It includes impacts on maternal health in the article below, at least in the US:

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-do...

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