GOP AGs To YouTube: Drop Abortion Pill Fact-Check

March 6, 2024 Republicans, Social Media

The Christian Post reports:

A coalition of 16 attorneys general has demanded that YouTube remove information labels attached to videos discussing chemical abortions that they argue are “misleading” to viewers. In a letter sent to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Monday, the attorneys general argued that the information panels the company included below videos on the popular video-sharing platform “misleads women seeking information about abortion drugs, potentially endangering their lives.”

The letter cited a video posted by the conservative legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom in which a woman described her bad experiences using a chemical abortion pill at home. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led the effort, joining the attorneys general for the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Fox News reports:

Ivy Choi, a spokesperson for YouTube, told Fox News Digital in a statement, “As part of our work to connect people to high-quality health content, we surface an information panel on abortion containing resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM).”

“These information panels appear under videos and above search results related to the topic of abortion, regardless of viewpoint. We work to keep our information panels up to date, and the information panel on abortion now better reflects the latest from the NLM,” Choi said.

Iowa AG Brenna Bird last appeared here in April 2023 when she banned the state from paying for the morning-after pill for rape victims. She first appeared on JMG in 2019 when a state official was awarded $1.5 million in an anti-gay discrimination lawsuit. At the time of the incident, Bird was chief counsel to former Gov. Terry Branstad and the pair had demanded that the man resign when they learned he was gay.



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