Facebook Bans Users Who Say They’ll Mail Abortion Pills

Vice News reports:

Facebook is removing the posts of users who share status updates that say abortion pills can be mailed and in some cases temporarily banning those users.

When exactly Facebook started removing these and similar posts is unclear. But Motherboard confirmed Facebook removed such posts on the same day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the United States.

“I will mail abortion pills to any one of you. Just message me,” said a message written by one person who was later banned. The person told Motherboard in an email: “I posted it at 11 a.m. and was notified within a minute that it was removed. I was not notified until I tried to post later that I was banned for it.”

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