{"id":253413,"date":"2021-09-15T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253413"},"modified":"2021-09-17T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T05:11:16","slug":"new-york-governor-facebook-curb-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-governor-facebook-curb-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New York’s new governor wants Facebook to ‘curb the spread’ of the pro-life message"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the stranglehold of Big Tech on the pro-life message was demonstrated in more than one way. Google\u00a0removed<\/a> Live Action’s ads promoting abortion pill reversal in a clear act of discrimination, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for Facebook to censor “misinformation” about abortion, essentially asking the social media giant to censor the pro-life message.<\/p>\n

Hochul to Zuckerberg: Step in to further limit pro-life message<\/strong><\/p>\n

As reported by The Blaze<\/a>, Hochul wrote a letter to Facebook’s founder\/chairman\/CEO Mark Zuckerberg, requesting that “information on any and all existing efforts to combat misinformation regarding abortion laws, procedures, and their availability.” She told him Facebook must “[t]ake additional action to curb the spread of this misinformation, as Facebook has with information related to COVID-19, vaccines, and voting rights.”<\/p>\n

Hochul replaced disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after an investigation revealed he sexually harassed a number of women. After the Texas Heartbeat Act went into effect on September 1, she joined<\/a> a pro-abortion Planned Parenthood rally in Brooklyn and\u00a0spoke<\/a> at a press conference in Central Park before the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument which honors pro-life women Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She gestured to the “brave women” commemorated there as she called the Texas Heartbeat Act “grotesquely unfair” \u2014 failing to realize that the women who first fought for women’s rights in the U.S. were never seeking to include abortion as a right. They stood firmly against it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Each day, posts are liked and shared on your site that make false claims about abortion procedures and reproductive health legislation, and this misinformation has hit close to home,” Hochul told Zuckerburg. “An analysis of Facebook engagement between January 1 and March 20, 2019, found that four of the top 10 stories receiving the most engagement on the platform were articles about the New York State Reproductive Health Act from anti-choice news sources that misrepresented the bill.”<\/p>\n

Hochul’s wishful thinking: Pro-lifers’ “horrific” description of abortions “have no basis in reality”<\/strong><\/p>\n

She claimed that the pro-life articles “describe horrific procedures that have no basis in reality, cite entirely made-up studies, and purposefully inflate or misrepresent public health data.” She said pro-lifers want nothing more than to “control women’s bodies.”<\/p>\n

This is, of course, false. Abortion procedures, especially the commonly used D&E second-trimester procedure<\/a>, or dismemberment abortion. Abortion workers themselves<\/em> have described the gruesome procedure, saying<\/a> that pulling the arms and legs off of babies is “violent<\/a>,” “emotionally difficult<\/a>,” and gave them “nightmares<\/a>.”\u00a0They have told how they must piece these babies back together<\/a> to ensure all body parts are accounted for, causing emotional distress. These are words directly from the abortion workers themselves. The Center for Medical Progress’s undercover videos showed in stomach-churning detail<\/a>\u00a0the truth about the identifiable parts of preborn children. Live Action’s Abortion Procedures<\/a> videos, viewed millions of times, are narrated by former abortionist Anthony Levatino, who has testified\u00a0under oath<\/a> before Congress about the brutality of the abortions he used to commit.<\/p>\n