A group of nearly a dozen Republican senators wrote a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai to demand the Big Tech company reverse its ban on pro-life advertisements after it ended an ad campaign promoting an Abortion bill reversal hotline.
The senators noted they were âdeeply concernedâ over Googleâs decision to ban Live Actionâs pro-life ads promoting Heartbeat Internationalâs Abortion Pill Reversal hotline. They called the censorship âout of step with the scienceâ and an âunacceptable bias.â
âWhile banning pro-life APR ads, Google continues to allow ads for purveyors of the deadly Abortion pill mifepristone by mail, despite the fact this drug has resulted in at least 24 mothersâ tragic deaths and at least 1,042 mothers being sent to the hospital,â the letter read.
âGoogleâs double standard on Abortion is disingenuous and an egregious abuse of its enormous market power to protect the billion-dollar Abortion industry,â the senators added.
The letter also accused Google of âAbortion distortion,â as the company allows the marketing of Abortion drugs on its platform, but not âlife-affirming alternatives.â
âThe practical consequence of Googleâs Abortion distortion is that pregnant mothers in crisis will only have the option to be marketed Abortion drugs through Googleâs ad platforms, while life-affirming alternatives are suppressed,â the senators wrote.
âAgain, we urge you to reverse Googleâs unjust and indefensible decision to suppress these pro-life life-saving APR information ads.â
Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, one of the letterâs signers, went to Twitter on Thursday to criticize Googleâs policy.
â@Google has banned some pro-life ads while continuing to allow ads for deadly Abortion pills by mail,â he tweeted.
âThe companyâs double standard on Abortion is disingenuous and an egregious abuse of its enormous market power,â Wicker added. âGoogle must reverse its ban.â
Live Action president Lila Rose announced the ban of the ad campaign Tuesday on Twitter.
âAt the request of Abortion activists, @Google has just BANNED all of @LiveActionâs pro-life ads, including those promoting the Abortion Pill Reversal treatment, a resource that has saved 2500 children to date,â Rose tweeted.
âThis is yet another example of Big Tech using their influence to silence pro-life views,â Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines, the organizer of the letter, told the Washington Examiner.
âGoogleâs double standard in censoring Abortion Pill Reversal ads while allowing do-it-yourself Abortion pill ads is unacceptable. They must immediately reverse this decision,â Daines added.
Google terminated the ad campaign this week, noting the ads made âunreliable claims,â according to the report.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
