{"id":8602,"date":"2011-12-09T18:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2013-04-02T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T22:51:10","slug":"humor-blog-jokes-siri-now-trying-way-too-hard-to-help-people-get-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/humor-blog-jokes-siri-now-trying-way-too-hard-to-help-people-get-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor blog jokes: &#8220;Siri now trying way too hard to help people get abortions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>We&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/is-siri-apples-must-have-iphone-app-pro-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">tracking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/apple-and-abortion-round-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">the story<\/a> about whether the Siri app is &#8220;pro-life&#8221; because before Apple updated their software it did a very poor job of directing people to abortion clinics when they asked it to (often directing them to pro-life pregnancy counseling centers instead).<\/p>\n<p>Now one internet wag at the humor site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyplace.com\/12630\/siri-now-trying-way-too-hard-to-help-people-get-abortions\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Happy Place<\/em><\/a> decided to create some photoshopped screenshots of Siri &#8220;trying way to hard to help people get abortions&#8221; even when they&#8217;re actually looking for something else:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?attachment_id=\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8603\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8603\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-12-09 at 6.08.16 PM\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-09-at-6.08.16-PM.png\" width=\"423\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Now, I don&#8217;t think joking about abortion is ever appropriate. Abortion is always a tragedy. But the image above and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyplace.com\/12630\/siri-now-trying-way-too-hard-to-help-people-get-abortions\" target=\"_blank\">other manipulated images<\/a> are only &#8220;funny&#8221; because we know in our hearts that seeking an abortion <em>isn&#8217;t just like running one more errand. <\/em>Consider this fake Siri exchange:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?attachment_id=\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8608\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8608\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-12-09 at 6.11.38 PM\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-09-at-6.11.38-PM.png\" width=\"423\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eerie thing about this exchange is that it sounds very similar to what we&#8217;ve seen Planned Parenthood tell young women facing a &#8220;problem&#8221; pregnancy. Planned Parenthood continually tells young women the lie that abortion is the easy, painless way out (&#8220;Poof.&#8221;) and seeks to isolate women from those who wish to help her make the heroic decision to choose life.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, humor and satire highlight the truth more clearly than argument and debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been tracking the story about whether the Siri app is &#8220;pro-life&#8221; because before Apple updated their software it did a very poor job of directing people to abortion clinics when they asked it to (often directing them to pro-life pregnancy counseling centers instead). Now one internet wag at the humor site Happy Place decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1186,1235,735,34,1236,1230],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Humor blog jokes: &quot;Siri now trying way too hard to help people get abortions&quot; - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/humor-blog-jokes-siri-now-trying-way-too-hard-to-help-people-get-abortions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Humor blog jokes: &quot;Siri now trying way too hard to help people get abortions&quot; - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;ve been tracking the story about whether the Siri app is &#8220;pro-life&#8221; because before Apple updated their software it did a very poor job of directing people to abortion clinics when they asked it to (often directing them to pro-life pregnancy counseling centers instead). 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