In a letter to Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, 17 Republican attorneys general have warned the company against limiting search results for pro-life clinics, and threatened legal action of the company continues to do so.
The letter appears to be a response to another letter by Democrat lawmakers that urged the tech giant to limit the appearance of crisis pregnancy centers in search results of people looking for abortion clinics.The letters by the pro-choice lawmakers cited research by Center for Countering Digital Hate, which found out that searches for “abortion pill” and “abortion clinic near me” returned results for pro-life pregnancy centers that help women.
“Directing women towards fake clinics that traffic in misinformation and don’t provide comprehensive health services is dangerous to women’s health and undermines the integrity of Google’s search results”, said the letter by the Democrats, which was sent in June, following the leak of the draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade....
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