{"id":308200,"date":"2024-03-07T08:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=308200"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:17:34","slug":"youtube-changes-abortion-disclaimer-16-ags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/youtube-changes-abortion-disclaimer-16-ags\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube changes ‘misleading’ abortion disclaimer after 16 AGs issue demand letter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube has changed the disclaimer attached to some abortion-related videos after a group of 16 attorneys general (AGs) sent a letter demanding the platform remove misleading information listed there. In the letter<\/a>, the AGs pointed out that pro-life information has long been suppressed by Alphabet, Inc. \u2014 the parent company of sites like Google and YouTube.<\/p>\n

“Less than two years ago, more than a dozen states warned Alphabet\u2019s CEO that Google must not discriminate against pro-life pregnancy resource centers in its search results, advertising, and other products. Soon after, Yelp discriminated against these same centers by posting a misleading ‘consumer notice’ on the centers\u2019 business pages. Attorneys general from [24] states demanded that Yelp remove the misleading notices,” the letter read. They continued:<\/p>\n

Now, YouTube is following that unfortunate trend and has added its own misleading \u201cinformation panel\u201d to videos about abortion. Your notice contains false information about a central issue in a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. It also misleads women seeking information about abortion drugs, potentially endangering their lives. We demand that you remove or correct the notice immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n

The letter also referenced a video<\/a> from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), in which a woman describes her experience with chemical abortion, or the abortion pill. Attached to the video was the following disclaimer, which was also listed on other videos discussing abortion, like those posted by Live Action:<\/p>\n

\u201cAn abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. The procedure is done by a licensed healthcare professional.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This was criticized as being misleading, as \u2014 because of revised FDA protocols \u2014 women now undergo chemical abortions on their own, at home, without any medical supervision whatsoever.<\/p>\n