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Law enforcement accuses the platform of “misleading” statements.
A prominent family values organization is praising the move by several states’ attorneys general to challenge YouTube’s pro-abortion bias.
“I am so happy that law enforcement is calling out YouTube for its clear pro-abortion bias against pro-life videos,” explained Jennifer Roback Morse, head of the Ruth Institute, a global nonprofit who leads the efforts to defend the family.
Previous reports document that 16 state attorneys general are suing YouTube for “misleading” informative posts about abortion videos, warning that the platform is endangering women by minimizing the risks of chemical abortions.
“Your bias against pro-life and pro-woman messages is un-American; incompatible with the liberties protected by the First Amendment; and, in this case, illegal,” the attorneys general said in the letter, first obtained by the Daily Signal. “It must stop.”
The initiative was led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, who was also joined by officials from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas , Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Morse explained, “At the Ruth Institute, we are no strangers to those blue boxes under our YouTube videos, which provide ‘abortion health information.’ Since we often interview pro-life activists, we often see those hateful boxes.”
He cited YouTube’s “false” information that a chemical abortion is performed “by a licensed healthcare provider.”
“Obviously, this is false,” Morse said. “Chemical abortions are performed not by a doctor, but by the pregnant woman herself, often at home, alone and without any idea of what is about to happen to her.”
He explained: “The same people who have scared us for years with ‘DIY home abortions’ with hangars seem completely indifferent to the suffering of women caused by ‘DIY home abortions’ with minimally regulated drugs . “
A video on the topic documents that approximately one in 25 women who take chemical abortion products ends up in the emergency room.
Bird, in an interview with the Daily Signal, explained: “Women deserve to know the truth about the dangers of chemical abortion pills. For YouTube to attach misleading labels to videos of women sharing their testimonies after undergoing at-home abortion drugs does a disservice to women everywhere. YouTube must end its blatant misinformation campaign that puts women at risk and stop targeting pro-life messages.”
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