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Searches for 'abortion' on CDC website prompt suggestion to look up 'adoption'

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07.02.2025

Users who search for abortion information on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website are now directed to try searching for the word "adoption."

The change comes less than a week after more than a dozen federal agency websites — including the CDC's — went offline. Some of the CDC’s webpages have since been restored, but scientists and public health researchers are concerned that the information that has come back has been altered in some way.

If users click on the “Also try: adoption” hyperlink, they are brought to a search result page with a mixed list of CDC articles. Many of the links are to health guidelines for families........

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