{"id":76926,"date":"2025-06-30T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76926"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:26:55","slug":"fact-checking-viral-claims-that-who-just-listed-the-contraceptive-pill-as-a-carcinogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/30\/fact-checking-viral-claims-that-who-just-listed-the-contraceptive-pill-as-a-carcinogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checking viral claims that WHO just listed the contraceptive pill as a carcinogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1HGP3k.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A photo shows a one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Viral claims that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has \u201cjust classified the pill as a group one carcinogen\u201d are flooding TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/fact-checking-viral-claims-that-who-just-listed-the-contraceptive-pill-as-a-carcinogen\/ar-AA1HGDXJ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5a90ea7c992f431ea6ae3245ccb2a84e&amp;ei=39\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Viral claims that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has \u201cjust classified the pill as a group one carcinogen\u201d are flooding TikTok, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/contraception.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76927,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76926\/revisions\/76927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}