“Today, on the CDC’s website right now, they list the 10 top advances — the 10 greatest advances in medical science. And one of them is abortion.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
HHS Secretary. Fox News interview. Claim dated 28 Aug 2025.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
The CDC's list of the top 10 public health achievements, which appears in an agency journal article, does not include abortion as a main entry.
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In short
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS Secretary) made this claim around 28 August 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it. Its rating was “False”.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has 55 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 27 of them false or fake, 27 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/video/6377564991112
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