ABSTRACT
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on June 24, 2022, to overturn Roe v. Wade, a surge of misinformation and disinformation on social media about abortion and women’s reproductive health circulated within the Latine community. The authors chose “Latine” as the term is more linguistically appropriate and is the preference from the community. This chapter focuses on the spread of misinformation and disinformation in the form of medically inaccurate reproductive health messages on the Spanish-language social media platform of Eduardo Verástegui. This platform was named by NARAL as an anti-abortion leader in the spread of disinformation. Using risk orders theory, a critical health communication framework, we analyzed Facebook posts published between January 2022 and February 2024. The findings offer significant insight into risk constructions attached to ideological patterns of anti-abortion messages fraught with medically inaccurate information about abortion.
