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On Wednesday, Sharon Coutts at Rewire (formerly RH Reality Check<\/a>) reported<\/a> on crisis pregnancy centers\u2019 use of geo-fencing technology to advertise alternatives to abortion directly on the smartphones of people in or near abortion facilities. In her telling, this \u201cpresents a serious threat to the privacy and safety of women exercising their right to choose, as well as to abortion providers and their staff,\u201d and the rest of the pro-abortion blogosphere agrees.<\/p>\n

The Daily Kos likens<\/a> it to the dystopian novel 1984<\/em>. Jezebel calls<\/a> it \u201ccreepy,\u201d as does<\/a> Mother Jones. Fusion deems<\/a> it \u201charassment\u201d based on \u201cquestionable ethics\u201d (try to overlook the irony of abortion advocates questioning the ethics of other practices). Is this just another pro-abortion hysteria campaign, or do they have a point?<\/p>\n

Before answering that, one side observation about Rewire\u2019s commitment to accuracy is in order. Coutts makes the following statement: \u201cIn an interview<\/a> with Live Action News<\/em>\u2014the website for Live Action, the group run by anti-choice activist Lila Rose that is responsible for bogus attack videos<\/a> against Planned Parenthood\u2014[Copley Advertising CEO John] Flynn gave some details about his strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except my piece she\u2019s linking to wasn\u2019t an interview, but simply a report on a press release about the service. This is an insignificant detail on its own, but it\u2019s fitting that Rewire would get something so basic wrong in the same sentence where they falsely attack Live Action for misrepresenting facts\u2026<\/p>\n

Coutts admits this is no different than what every American already accepts from countless companies:<\/p>\n

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A watch you looked at now pops up next to your Facebook feed; an ad for a coffee machine you researched on Amazon now lurks on your favorite news sites. And maybe, after researching cars online, it seems that Toyota knows whenever you visit a lot, and sends ads to your phone as you walk through the dealership\u2019s doors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So what\u2019s the problem? First, she cites an anonymous adoption worker who allegedly finds it \u201cdisgusting\u201d that abortion-minded women would be \u201cspied on by this capitalist vulture who is literally trying to sell their fetuses [\u2026] To do this to women without consent is predatory and it\u2019s an invasion of her privacy, and unethical.\u201d<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s see if we have this right: First-trimester abortions average $470 a pop<\/a> and abortion generates<\/a> a third of Planned Parenthood\u2019s clinic income and 10% of its overall revenue\u2026but non-profit pregnancy centers are the \u201ccapitalist vultures\u201d here? These people do realize that the company running the ads doesn\u2019t get the babies, right? For people calling themselves pro-choice, it sure is suspicious<\/a> how<\/a> often<\/a> they<\/a> demonize<\/a> the choice of adoption.<\/p>\n

\"DefundAd-400b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Next, Coutts complains:<\/p>\n

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Like most CPCs, the claim that RealOptions provides \u201cfacts\u201d about abortion is deceptive. While that language may lead women to believe they could obtain abortion care at RealOptions, in federal tax filings, the organization explains its mission as: \u201cempowering and equipping women and men to choose life for their unborn children through the love of Jesus Christ in accordance with his word regarding the sanctity of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But this objection has nothing to do with the original subject of geo-fencing; it\u2019s simply complaining that CPCs exercise their free speech at all. The deception isn\u2019t even real\u2014to assume that offering to inform people about abortion must be an offer to facilitate abortion is nothing more than Coutts projecting her own biases onto the message. For more on this and many other abortion industry smears against pregnancy centers, see my comprehensive takedown of the subject<\/a> from last year.<\/p>\n

Finally, Coutts gets around to identifying an actual potential privacy concern: that tagging the locations of women\u2019s phones and other information collected by web applications could potentially identify specific women and their addresses. But even that’s handicapped by her admissions that (a) nobody is breaking any laws, (b) \u201cthere is no evidence to suggest that Flynn or his clients have or want to use geo-fencing to learn the real identities of women seeking abortion,\u201d and (c) women can avoid their phones being tagged by simply turning off their GPS and logging out of apps before going to abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

So the critics just assume<\/em> that it\u2019s only a matter of time before we start using it to stalk and harass women, because pro-lifers are cartoon supervillains driven by an irrational compulsion to control women, rather than concerned citizens trying to defend preborn babies and their mothers from a predatory industry that abuses their health<\/a>, lies to them<\/a>, and abandons them to abusers and rapists<\/a>. Just another day at the office.<\/p>\n

To be clear, even hypothetical abuses of new technology are worth looking into, and it may well be that the overall field of geo-targeted advertising needs tighter regulations and privacy protections. But with no evidence whatsoever that these pregnancy centers are doing anything wrong, there\u2019s no reason they should feel guilty for using perfectly-legal tools to send women in need valuable messages.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and it\u2019s worth noting that the abortion industry itself uses the very same technology its apologists are demonizing pro-lifers over. For instance, Revolution Messaging boasts<\/a> that with its services, \u201cyou can target the right individuals on any device, and be sure the ads are optimized to the time and location when they are most receptive to your message\u201d\u2026and lists Planned Parenthood as one of its clients. PP of the Heartland\u2019s Privacy Policy<\/a> discusses collecting visitors\u2019 geographic locations, IP addresses, browsers, operating systems, page views, and search terms for sending targeted messages to other websites they visit, the same way Copley does. PP also has<\/a> a series of apps\u2014targeted at teenagers\u2014that ask for age, race, sex, and location on the first screen.<\/p>\n

So if Big Abortion really wants to push pregnancy centers to drop their latest tools for reaching women in need, a simple reply is all they need: \u201cyou first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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