A claim asserted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists abortion among the top ten medical innovations or greatest medical accomplishments. A search of the CDC "Ten Great Public Health Advancements" page found no occurrences of the word "abortion." Another CDC list likewise returned zero results for that term. The CDC family planning page includes the word "abortion" five times, but those mentions do not frame abortion as a public health achievement. Health and Human Services noted that family planning appears on the site. The claim that abortion is listed as a top medical accomplishment is unsupported by the site content.
While sitting at his desktop, Tapper searched the CDC website for the word abortion under the CDC's Ten Great Public Health Advancements. And you'll see, none of them include the word abortion,' he said. There's another one, also, just to be fair, Tapper continued. Here's another Ten Great Public Health Achievements,' United States, a different one. When Tapper typed in abortion, the search came up zero out of zero.
HHS told Tapper that abortion might not be mentioned, but family planning is. So, here's the question, Tapper said. Does the mention of abortion in this mean that they're talking about abortion as an achievement or is abortion just used in some other context? Tapper found five mentions of the word abortion on that page, but none claimed that abortion was some great achievement in health.
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