Will Google Silence Pro-Life Voices and Resources?
By Movieguide® Contributor
Despite pro-choice advocates calling Crisis pregnancy centers deceptive, and even calling on Google to censor their visibility on the search engine, pro-life advocates are standing their ground.
“This is an all-out attack on pregnancy centers,” Rev. Jim Harden told CBN News who is CEO of one such crisis pregnancy center, CompassCare in Buffalo, New York.
Harden’s response comes after lawmakers urged Google last month in a letter to either restrict crisis pregnancy centers appearance in search engine results or putting disclaimers on the search results when users look up keywords like “abortion pill” or “abortion clinic.” They argue CPC’s, or what they repeatedly call “anti-abortion fake clinics,” are misleading because they don’t provide abortions, but alternatives to abortion and are showing up too prevalently in Google search results, steering people away from abortion providers.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) decried these pregnancy centers.
“These are deceptive outfits that front for groups that are trying to harass or otherwise frighten people who are pregnant to keep them from seeking an abortion, and they do so under the cover of pretending to offer abortion services,” Warren said, who was one of the lawmakers to sign the letter addressed to Google.
In another letter addressed to Google, Attorney General Letitia James stated, “CPCs exist solely to intercept and dissuade pregnant people from making fully informed decisions about their healthcare such as the choice to obtain an abortion.”
Harden argued that pregnancy centers are the ones that are providing the facts about abortion allowing pregnant women to make the most informed decision.
“Women have a right to know the risks and side effects of abortion. Restricting information from women is preventing them from having a choice. Pregnancy centers are the ones providing all the risks of abortion,” Harden said. “It appears that Letitia James and the other pro-abortion politicians believe that women are not intelligent enough to navigate Google and should only have one option; abortion.”
Executive Director of Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center, Heidi Matzke defended the legitimacy of CPC’s in a Senate Judiciary Committee noting that her staff consists of medical professionals, including an OB/GYN who is a former abortionist.
“Our entire medical staff is there for women whether they choose abortion and walk out the door or whether they choose life for their baby and we support them for years after that,” Matzke stated.
Although it appears as though Google has not yet censored CPCs in search engines, the Big Tech company has censored other pro-life organizations in the past. Movieguide® reported last September that Google banned pro-life group Live Action abortion-reversal ads and their Baby Olivia animation video that depicts the development of a baby form conception to 38 weeks.
“Google disingenuously cites ‘unreliable claims’ as their reason to ban the promotion of Abortion Pill Reversal, but has obviously failed to understand the FDA-approved treatment that the reversal technology uses,” Live Action’s founder Lila Rose said.
Movieguide® previously reported on Big Tech’s censorship of Christian Companies—even a message from Movieguide® founder Dr. Ted Baehr where he shared the gospel— and it’s far reaching implications:
The issue here is not that any of us have actually violated these tech company’s vague community standards … it’s that big tech is reaching, stretching as hard as they can, to treat us as if we have.
Why?
Because they’re actively engaged in suppressing any view that doesn’t fall in lockstep with their own.
Just this week, three top employees at YouTube were caught on video talking about how the largest search provider in the world skews their algorithm, tampers with news search results, and censors political views!
If this doesn’t frighten you, it should.
These companies have incredible power to not only influence culture, but to bend truth. They’ve already begun their attacks on us and many other faith-based companies. Some of us are able to fight back, many are not. That’s why we need our audiences to understand the threat, not only to us as a ministry, but to the future of free access to information, and the future of our country!
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