They said attempts to limit 'crisis pregnancy centers,' in search results would, 'constitute a grave assault on the principle of free speech.'
Tuesday’s letter comes partly in response to a Juneconducted by the Center for Countering Digital Hate which found 11% of Google searches in trigger law states for the terms “abortion clinic near me” and “abortion pill” directed users toward so-called crisis pregnancy centers, which the CCCDH refers to as “anti-abortion fake clinics.” Google Maps results led users to that clinics 37% of the time.
a new regulation that would direct the Federal Trade Commission to prevent these clinics from engaging in misleading advertising.“Anti-abortion fake clinics are the conversion therapy wing of an anti-abortion movement that is hell-bent on sending people to jail for abortion, miscarriage, and pregnancy,” Reproaction Co-Founder and Executive Director Erin Matson, said in a statement.
The Republican AGs aren’t necessarily wrong that limiting anti-abortion clinic searches would essentially discriminate against so-called pro-life groups, but that seeming market manipulation is also integral to how search engines fundamentally work. Google, and pretty much all other search engines, simply aren’t value-neutral.
in the process specifically due to its prowess at directing users to information that’s valuable to their queries. In the case of pregnant women searching for abortion services amid frantic legal uncertainty, anti-abortion clinics are possibly theGoogle has already shown some willingness to wade into the debate. Earlier this month, following weeks of uncertainty the search giant announced it would delete location history for people traveling to receive abortion services.
“If our systems identify that someone has visited one of these places, we will delete these entries from Location History soon after they visit,” Google
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