Users say this sort of crackdown often happens in the aftermath of major news around abortion—like, say, the end of Roe.
Shanahan says she and her friends have tried to circumvent TikTok’s policing of abortion content with actions like typing out “ab0rtion,” with a zero. But a bigger problem has often been the mass-reporting of @prochoicewithheart’s videos by anti-abortion users for bogus reasons like “sexual content.”
Isabelle, who went by @abortionqweenn on TikTok and asked that her last name be excluded, says that growing a significant following on the platform seemed to work against her. Isabelle first made the account because she “had complicated feelings about my abortion,” and making videos “helped me as much as I think it helped others,” she told Jezebel in an email.
Williams, a mother of three based in Arizona, which just passed a 15-week abortion ban, says posting videos on TikTok helped her process the difficult emotions surrounding her own abortion, which had involved a wanted, unviable pregnancy, and that TikTok “really created the activist I am, today.
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