{"id":157044,"date":"2016-11-21T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=157044"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:42:08","slug":"washington-post-two-pinocchios-for-99-percent-women-birth-control-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-post-two-pinocchios-for-99-percent-women-birth-control-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Two Pinocchios for ’99 percent of women have used birth control’ claim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In light of a #ThxBirthControl trend on social media, in which some pro-lifers have also participated<\/a>, the abortion lobby — including Planned Parenthood — has\u00a0once<\/a> again<\/a>\u00a0touted the dubious claim that 99 percent of women have used birth control.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post fact checker Michelle Ye Hee Lee\u00a0recently investigated<\/a>\u00a0this\u00a0claim. As she explains, the #ThxBirthControl hashtag is “part of an ongoing\u00a0effort by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy<\/a>\u00a0to publicly support birth control and all that it makes possible for individuals and society,\u201d including\u00a0\u201cthe ability to plan, prevent, and space pregnancies.”<\/p>\n

After some evaluation, Lee\u00a0gave the 99 percent claim two Pinocchios, which means<\/a> there are “[s]ignificant omissions and\/or exaggerations…” and that the claim is “[s]imilar to half true.”<\/p>\n

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