CDC website search for ‘abortion’ now also suggests looking up ‘adoption’

A change to the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directs users looking up “abortion” to try “adoption” as well.

After the prompt to try the hyperlinked “adoption” term, the first results for the “abortion” query are those related to CDC’s “Abortion Surveillance System.”

Once the “adoption” link is clicked, the user finds items related to “international adoption” and “intercountry adoption,” as well as “flu vaccination recommendations adopted” and “food code adoption.” 

Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, at least a dozen federal agency websites, including the CDC, went dark for a while, reported The Hill last week. 

The CDC’s website homepage states it is “being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.” 

Abortion industry workers who spoke with The Hill said the change to the CDC’s website amounted to a “‘clear attempt’ to change how conversations around pregnancy are approached.” 

“It’s a very strange thing to do because the decision tree around pregnancy is to either continue the pregnancy or not. If the pregnancy is continued, then the decision becomes parenting or not,” said Meghan Eagen-Torkko, director of the school of nursing at Eastern Michigan University who is described as having provided “reproductive health care” for years. 

Live Action News’ Nancy Flanders, however, wrote that Eagen-Torkko’s comment reflects a stance that is “a complete disservice to women who deserve to consider adoption immediately after becoming pregnant.” 

“Most of the fears women struggle with when facing an unexpected pregnancy have more to do with parenthood than with the pregnancy itself,” Flanders added, citing research by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.