{"id":253245,"date":"2021-09-14T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253245"},"modified":"2021-09-15T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:46:23","slug":"google-shuts-live-action-abortion-pill-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/google-shuts-live-action-abortion-pill-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Google shuts down Live Action abortion pill reversal ads following coordinated pro-abortion attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily Beast gender reporter Emily Shugerman has published a hit piece<\/a> criticizing Live Action for an ad campaign promoting abortion pill reversal. Shugerman, who is ardently pro-abortion and has been working to attack the Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a>, argued that abortion pill reversal is dangerous and unproven, and cited a litany of activists from within the abortion industry to make her point.\u00a0The article is based on a report<\/a> from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which stated that Live Action’s ads were viewed millions of times on Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n

The abortion industry opposes abortion pill reversal, which tends to cast doubt on the idea<\/a> that all women who choose abortion are certain of their decision to abort, and because between 39<\/a> and 41<\/a>% of all abortions are now done using the abortion pill method<\/a> \u2014 a significant source of income<\/a> for the industry.<\/p>\n

Shugerman began by casting doubt on the story of Rebekah Hagan<\/a>, who began the abortion pill process, but immediately regretted it. She chose to try abortion pill reversal, and says it saved her son’s life\u00a0\u2014 yet Shugerman insinuates that it’s been made up, writing, “At least, that\u2019s what dozens of ads on Facebook would like you to think.”<\/p>\n

Online censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n

On May 10, 2021, Live Action placed strategic ads on Google that informed women of the possibility of reversing the abortion pill process, which involves treatment with a safe pregnancy hormone called progesterone, which has been safely used for decades as standard treatment to prevent miscarriages<\/a>. The APR treatment\u2019s goal is to outcompete the progesterone-blocking effects of mifepristone, also known as the abortion pill. The treatment has reportedly saved the lives of over 2,500 children and has a 68% success rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On September 13, without warning, Google \u201cdisapproved\u201d all of Live Action\u2019s Abortion Pill Reversal ads. The ads had been approved by Google and running for over four months, spending over $170,000 and directing thousands to the abortion pill reversal hotline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of the ads were shut down per Google\u2019s \u201cunreliable claims\u201d policy, effectively banning Live Action from running advertisements on the platform.<\/p>\n

While Google shuts down all ads informing mothers of their choice to reverse the abortion pill if they regret their decision, they continue to allow pro-abortion ads for the abortion pill, which has sent 1,042 women to the hospital, required 599 women to need blood transfusions, and killed at least 24<\/a> mothers (FDA).*<\/p>\n

Click the tweet below to read the entire thread, showing the ads that have been banned\u00a0\u2014\u00a0including one regarding human development in the womb, which Google listed as containing “unreliable claims.”<\/p>\n

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.@Google<\/a> has also banned the promotion of our Baby Olivia video, a medically accurate (& accredited by OBGYNs), lifelike animation of human development in the womb, citing \u201cunreliable claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the video banned from ads: https:\/\/t.co\/CwR2L2hKug<\/a><\/p>\n

Unacceptable. pic.twitter.com\/Jnz0bqqLyA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n