US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing a backlash after being accused of spreading “sensationalist fiction” in a series of
anti-abortion posts on
Social Media.
Republican representative Greene, who has previously and once , sparked outcry online after she posted about
abortion on X/Twitter over the weekend. In one , the Trump fanatic claimed abortion providers are “ripping” organs out of “babies born alive” to perform “experiments on them”. She linked to another post from a right-wing account that included information purportedly from anti-abortion medic, Dr Theresa Deisher. In another post, Greene wrote about a disputed claim that anti-abortion activists were given 115 aborted foetuses from a medical waste company. She included an image of the alleged remains. People on X/Twitter called Greene out for posting , outright , , and statements that had in them. One account described the Georgia representative’s posts as a that amounted to a “cocktail of falsehoods and fear-mongering, designed to distort public perception”. Conservative efforts to restrict reproductive rights have increased in recent years with the of Roe v Wade, efforts to and . In 2015, Republicans launched a , based on videos alleging the healthcare organisation illegally profited from aborted foetal tissue. An investigation found that such incidents occurred. Meanwhile,
Democrats on the oversight and accountability committee have several unfounded, anti-abortion claims against Planned Parenthood. In 2022, anti-abortion activists Terrisa Bukovinac and Lauren Handy they took 115 foetal remains from a medical waste company. They claimed to have buried a majority of them at an undisclosed location but . The medical waste company their account of events, and
police the foetuses appeared to have been aborted legally. Last August, Handy was by blockading an abortion clinic in October 2020. This is far from the first time Greene has faced a backlash for touting theories online and pushing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. The House of Representatives in 2021 following an uproar about her incendiary comments and for spreading conspiracy theories. Greene once , infamously made and claimed . She has also claimed that and . In addition, she has been criticised for her public responses to deadly school shootings in and .