Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Google show their true colours

AUTUMN APPEAL

Dear SPUC supporter,

Last week, I wrote to you about how Big Tech giant Google banned ads on its search engine and YouTube during the 2018 Irish abortion referendum.

The ban placed the pro-life campaign at an immediate disadvantage.

The mainstream media had been overwhelmingly backing the campaign to legalise abortion and Pro-lifers had been relying heavily on online advertising to get their message out.

Many commentators – even the pro-abortion Irish Times – accepted that the ads ban helped swing the referendum away from the pro-life side in the final days of the campaign.

Fast forward four years to 2022 and the US Supreme Court overturns the Roe v Wade ruling which had made abortion a legal right across all 50 US states since 1973.

Following the Court’s ruling Big Tech showed its true colours (if they were ever in doubt) by showing contempt for the judgment in a spectacular way.

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Big Tech companies announced they will cover travel expenses for employees’ abortions.

Tech companies including Microsoft, Meta (the parent company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), as well as Apple and Google (who own YouTube), all announced that they would cover employees' travel expenses should they travel out of a “pro-life” state for abortions.
* Amazon said it would cover up to $4,000 in travel expenses related to medical procedures including abortion services.
* Google told its employees that their benefits plan and health insurance would cover out-of-state medical procedures (which includes abortions) that are unavailable where an employee lives or works. It added that employees could apply for relocation without justification.
* The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents some workers at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, called on the company to end financial support for conservative politicians who are “anti-reproductive justice & anti-worker.”

The leaders of Amazon Labor Union, the first union at an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., echoed the sentiment.
* President Christian Smalls tweeted that “Women's rights are Labor rights.”


False “Fact-checking” – a technique favoured by Big Tech to BLOCK the pro-life message?
Staying in America, videos about abortion posted by the US pro-life group Live Action were labelled “false” by one of Facebook’s partner fact-checking organisations.

The videos discussing why abortion is not a medically necessary procedure were labelled as “sharing false news.”

Consequently, Live Action’s page was punished with “reduced distribution.”

Live Action President, Lila Rose, stated that:


"Facebook sent notifications to thousands of users alleging that our two videos were ‘false.’

"Our two videos explain a position shared by thousands of medical professionals but Facebook’s notification was based on the opinion of two activist abortionists that targeted Live Action and me."

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"Information on abortion that was determined false by Science Feedback, which describes itself as 'a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in science-based media coverage,' has since been debunked by The American Association of Pro-life OBGYNs."


Dr Donna Harrison, executive director of AAPLOG said:


"They are in error to claim that elective abortion is medically necessary to save the life of the mother.

"They did not cite even one example where an abortion, the intentional killing of a living child in utero, would be superior to delivering that child."

One way that SPUC is bypassing pro-life censorship is by seeking opportunities to collaborate directly with UK faith groups

Around 27.5 million UK residents described themselves as Christians in the 2021 census.

Earlier this year saw the completion of 10 Million Prayers for 10 Million Lost Lives awareness campaign.

The campaign marked the 55th anniversary of the Abortion Act and commemorated the 10 million unborn lives lost to abortion in the UK since 1967.

The public outreach project was endorsed by a host of prominent Christian leaders including:
* Archbishop Leo Cushley of the Archdiocese of St Andrew’s and Edinburgh
* Bishop John Keenan of the Paisley Diocese
* Bishop Terence Drainey of the Diocese of Middlesbrough
* Bishop Mark Davies of the Diocese of Shrewsbury
* Bishop David Oakley of the Diocese of Northampton
* Rev. Calvin Robinson, clergyman in the Free Church of England, political commentator and TV broadcaster

Will you give a MONTHLY GIFT £5 or £10 or £20 or £50 of £100 or £250 or more to keep the pro-life message alive and save precious babies’ lives?

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Pro-life outreach projects like this one are helping us bypass the censors at Big Tech and other mainstream media platforms.

But each one requires a substantial investment in staff time and financial resources which is placing a strain on our modest income.

(Last year, Google (Alphabet) amassed almost $60 billion in net profits from a record turnover of 279.8 billion U.S. dollars)

We really are in a David vs Goliath fight.

That is why I urge you to give whatever you can today to help.

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Thank you for helping to ensure that the truth about abortion continues to be heard.

Yours in defence of life,

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