OK, Google: Why are you still pointing women at fake abortion clinics?
Google is still effectively directing women seeking abortions to anti-abortion centers that masquerade as legit abortion clinics.
This is despite the internet giant's wider efforts to convince us it's committed to protecting reproductive rights in post-Roe America.published on Thursday, women using Google to find abortion providers continue to be shown, in the search results, ads for so-called pregnancy crisis centers, which offer no medical services for those seeking a termination and instead try to talk pregnant women out of a procedure.
For its investigation, TTP used a fresh, logged-out Google Chrome with no prior browsing history. Additionally, for location-specific searches, the researchers used a VPN to make it look like they were searching from that location used in the search.We quickly found more than a dozen questionable crisis pregnancy center ads. For example, when our test user searched for 'Where can I get an abortion in Illinois,' Google served an ad for a 'Free Abortion Pill.
Needless to say, Prestonwood doesn't provide medical abortions or free abortion pills. These and other crisis pregnancy center ads do, in very small type in the search results, note:"Does not provide abortions." But this admission is largely overshadowed by a much bigger headline advertising"Free Abortion Pill," in Perstonwood's case, and other seemingly misleading phrases, such as"Safe Abortion" and"Medication Abortion" on various other anti-abortion center ads.
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