{"id":8223,"date":"2011-11-29T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2013-04-01T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:38:19","slug":"is-siri-apples-must-have-iphone-app-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/is-siri-apples-must-have-iphone-app-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Siri, Apple’s must-have iPhone app, pro-life?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Pro-abortion bloggers are fuming over the fact that Apple’s newest and hottest iPhone app, Siri, apparently will not tell you where the nearest abortion clinic is.<\/p>\n

Instead, the app often points women to pro-life pregnancy resource centers!<\/p>\n

First, some quick background: Siri<\/strong><\/a>, available on Apple’s iPhone 4S, is an advanced voice-recognition app which, among other things, allows you to ask your phone to find things for you simply by asking the question. Hungry for Pizza? Just ask Siri.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> calls Siri “The must-have Christmas gift.”<\/p>\n

Now, the tech blog Gizmodo<\/em><\/a> reports what pro-abortion users of the app have discovered — Siri doesn’t serve up abortion results:<\/p>\n

If you ask Siri for an abortion clinic in New York City, it will tell you “Sorry, I couldn’t find any abortion clinics.” A simple Google web search\u2014which Siri itself uses to find results\u2014gives you seven to start with, some within walking distance of where I’m located. Apparently,\u00a0women across the country are having similar experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

RawStory<\/em><\/a> reports on what happens if you search for abortion clinics in Washington, DC:<\/p>\n

Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you happen to be in Washington, D.C., she won\u2019t direct you to\u00a0the Planned Parenthood on 16th St, NW. Instead, she\u2019ll suggest you pay a visit to the\u00a01st Choice Women\u2019s Health Center, a [pro-life] Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) in Landsdowne, Virginia, or\u00a0Human Life Services, a CPC in York, Pennsylvania. Ask Google the same question, and you\u2019ll get ads for no less than 7 metro-area abortion clinics, 2 CPCs and a nationwide abortion referral service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, I think it’s great that Siri points women asking about abortion to pro-life pregnancy resource centers. After all, that’s the right place to go if you want the full story about abortion!<\/p>\n

That said, I know we can expect rabid pro-abortion groups to start putting pressure on Apple to add pro-abortion search results to Siri. I think we should mobilize a counter-response asking Apple to ensure that Siri continues to give women seeking abortions accurate information — by pointing them to a nearby pro-life pregnancy resource center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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