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# For Fact’s Sake podcast: How is misinformation fuelling the anti-abortion movement?
- URL: https://www.theferret.scot/how-misinformation-fuelling-anti-abortion-movement/
- Published: 2023-10-12T10:01:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-17T07:55:52.000Z
- Author: Ferret Journalists
- Tags: Fact Checks, #davesutton2gmail-com, Podcast, abortion, anti vax, Conspiracy Theories, Covid-19, Ferret Fact Service, Keir Starmer, Sian Norris, zombies, For Fact's Sake, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-15 12:08, #older_unmetered

On episode 19 of For Fact’s Sake, Paul talked to freelance journalist [Sian Norris](https://www.theferret.scot/author/sian-norris/) about her work exposing disinformation around abortion and reproductive rights.

Sian explained the growing threat to abortion rights around the world, how anti-abortion rhetoric can act as a ‘gateway drug’ into far-right and conspiracy views, and the pipeline that carries fringe views about reproductive rights from online spaces to the halls of power.

Elsewhere, Ali explains why a recording of Keir Starmer from the Labour Party conference is almost certainly fake, and on Paul’s Curiosity Corner the boys discuss claims that the Covid-19 vaccine was going to turn millions of Americans into zombies.

![abortion](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2d/e2/2de2844d-80a7-4c7b-8025-6f1f39724aa6/content/images/2025/10/ffs-19.jpg)

**Show notes:**

You can read more of Sian Norris’ investigations on abortion and disinformation [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/satanic-conspiracies-and-brexiteers-inside-a-bizarre-academy-for-anti-abortion-activists/?ref=theferret.scot) and [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/you-could-die-and-turn-your-husband-gay-how-i-learned-to-talk-women-out-of-legal-abortions/?ref=theferret.scot).

  
Sian is also the author of [Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global](https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2825-bodies-under-siege?ref=theferret.scot)

*Cover image thanks to Wikimedia/FamilyMan88*