YouTube posts similar notices on videos about abortion posted by pro-abortion accounts.
“The last sentence of the notice is both false and misleading,” the attorneys general said in their letter. “It suggests that chemical abortions are performed by trained professionals. They are not. Although surgical abortions are still typically ‘done by a licensed healthcare professional,’ under current FDA protocols chemical abortions are ‘done by’ pregnant women themselves.”
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall told CNA that YouTube’s abortion notice “is the latest troubling instance of Big Tech targeting of conservative viewpoints” and that “worse still,” YouTube is doing so “by spreading false and dangerous statements.”
The letter explains that chemical abortions are commonly carried out in a woman’s home, without any supervision by a healthcare professional and that “roughly” 1 in 25 women who take abortion pills end up in the emergency room.
According to the letter, state attorneys general are authorized to take legal action against Google and YouTube because of their “need to exercise our consumer-protection authority to protect pregnant women and other consumers from your falsehoods.”
“By asserting that chemical abortions are performed by licensed healthcare professionals, YouTube lies to our constituents and the rest of the American public.”
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