John,

For years, Reproaction has tracked and documented thousands of discoverable anti-abortion fake clinics throughout the United States and shared that information for public use in our Fake Clinic Database. Independently researched and periodically updated by Reproaction’s team, this tool has been invaluable to abortion workers and activists alike in fighting disinformation and holding anti-abortion bad actors accountable for the harm they perpetuate.

Recently, we had the honor of having our data used in a report by The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) called “Profiting from Deceit: How Google Profits From Anti-Choice Ads Distorting Searches for Reproductive Healthcare.”

Check out the report here.

The findings are damning. Despite promises to ban advertisements for “abortion pill reversal” and similar medical disinformation after a 2021 report by CCDH, Google has since taken a combined $10.2 million in ad revenue to boost websites for anti-abortion fake clinics – who promote just that: anti-abortion disinformation. The report also documents the ways that anti-abortion fake clinics target and mislead people seeking abortion care, and the prevalence of this deception.

There are thousands of anti-abortion fake clinics scattered throughout the nation, outnumbering real abortion clinics by a factor of 3 to 1 and diverting funding meant for community resources to fuel their deception and shaming. Google should have no business aiding that.

Please read this stellar report and take action with the Center for Countering Digital Hate now.

Thank you for checking out this incredible work.

Nataley Neuman
Executive Assistant, Reproaction

P.S. Take your learning one step further with an action: at the bottom of the report page, CCDH has a petition to tell Google to stop profiting off anti-abortion lies. Sign now!

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