22 June 2026
Chloe Hanse, Amnesty Feminist Network Committee Member

Abortion is a common healthcare procedure in the UK: 1 in 3 women will have one in their lifetime.[1] Despite this prevalence, it remains a heavily stigmatised and taboo topic. That gap, between how routine it is and how shameful it's made to feel, might explain why so many people now turn to Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots when they need information.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Meta AI, and Grok have become a new way that people find information about abortion care.[2] These tools are fast, available at any hour, and they feel private [3]. You don't have to sift through pages of search results. For many people, asking a chatbot about abortion probably feels emotionally easier than calling a clinic. There is no receptionist, no unknown of how whoever picks up a helpline will react, no worry about ‘burdening’ a healthcare provider with questions. You just ask a question, and something answers, and it does so in a confident, authoritative tone that can make it easy to take the information at face value.

Continued: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved/join-the-movement/join-a-group-or-network/amnesty-feminists/blog/ai-abortion-care-how-people-are-using-ai-to-find-abortion-care-and-how-this-might-be-dangerous/