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“Gas prices are skyrocketing because of D.C. bureaucrats' war on American energy production.”
FactCheck.org says: Experts told us the COVID-19 pandemic caused a global supply-demand imbalance that increased the price of crude oil and gasoline, prices that climbed higher after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
“Herbal remedies are an option for at-home abortions.”
FactCheck.org says: Taking unregulated herbal cocktails to cause an abortion can be dangerous, obstetricians say. But recipes — some containing potentially toxic ingredients — for self-induced “miscarriages” have been circulating.
“Planned Parenthood clinics have been "closing down all over the country" since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.”
FactCheck.org says: Planned Parenthood has not closed any of its health centers since the ruling. Some clinics have ceased performing abortions but are still providing health services.
“$5,000 a year" is "the burden of Joe Biden’s inflation tax on Wisconsin families.”
FactCheck.org says: That's an estimate for how much more a U.S. household, on average, would have to spend for the same basket of goods in 2022, compared with last year, due to inflation. There's no breakdown by various inflation causes.
“An image shows a “UFO photographed on June 21, 2014 by the pilot from the cockpit of an F-16 military plane flying near Lackland Air Force Base of the United States located in San Antonio, Texas.”
“Foto de explanada llena de basura frente al escenario del Festival de Glastonbury fue tomada tras el discurso que dio la activista ambiental Greta Thunberg.”
“J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement.”
PolitiFact says: Vance wants to defund the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a law enforcement agency. Broadly, Vance has not said he wants to defund all police departments.
“Kentucky is considering a law that would require women to present a "signed and notarized statement" from a doctor attesting to whether or not they are pregnant each month.”
FactCheck.org says: Overturning Roe v. Wade allowed abortion bans in several states to take effect. Online posts falsely claim Kentucky may require women to undergo monthly pregnancy testing, but the claim comes from a satirical amendment.
“In the state of Georgia, violent crime went up 55% in 2019 to 2020 under Brian Kemp.”
FactCheck.org says: The actual increase was about 5%.
“La prohibición de “relaciones de una noche”, con una pena de siete años de cárcel si se incumple, es una medida con la que se perseguirá de forma activa a los asistentes del Mundial de Fútbol Qatar 2022.”
“The Left and the Democrats were calling for alternate electors after the 2016 election.”
FactCheck.org says: After the 2016 presidential election, some progressive Democrats tried to convince electors for Donald Trump to switch their Electoral College votes to Hillary Clinton.
“mRNA Vaccine Exposed! Bayer Admits COVID-19 Vaccine is Gene Therapy.”
FactCheck.org says: An executive at Bayer referred to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as an example of innovation in a 2021 speech. But a website post takes the executive’s words out of context to falsely claim he said the vaccines are gene therapy.
“My approach has brought down COVID deaths by 90%.”
FactCheck.org says: That figure is accurate, but experts say the dip is largely attributable to a number of factors outside the president's control.
“No one “with a concealed carry permit ever committed a mass shooting.”
“Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, his prospective opponent, has received $1.2 million from the gun lobby.”
“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”
PolitiFact says: 61% of Americans — a majority — live in a state where, for now, the overturning of Roe isn’t changing the legal status of abortion. But well short of a majority live in states that actively "protected" abortion rights.
“The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade "made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world" on abortion rights.”
PolitiFact says: The reversal of Roe eliminated the national right to abortion access in the U.S., leaving it to states to regulate.That makes the U.S. an outlier among other developed nations, which allow national access to abortion.
“Adam Laxalt "supports eliminating Nevada's protections for legal abortions.”
PolitiFact says: Adam Laxalt has indicated support for tightening abortion access by asking voters in a referendum to restrict abortion in Nevada to the first 13 weeks of pregnancy.
“Adam Laxalt "wants to restrict" and "worked to limit access to birth control.”
PolitiFact says: As Nevada's attorney general, Adam Laxalt supported efforts that would have restricted access to birth control. We did not find more recent statements from Laxalt on this issue.