Dear Google,
Please take the advice of the classic UK rock band, The Who, and “don’t get fooled again!”
Don’t get fooled by Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s most recent publication, “Profiting From Deceit,” which is deceptive in itself and uses digital hate to shill for the abortion industry. Ahmed feigns concern for “Americans seeking reproductive healthcare advice and services” when his main concern is that American women might find and consider something besides abortion.
Don’t get fooled by Ahmed’s use of “reproductive healthcare,” which he deploys solely as a euphemism for abortion (chemical or surgical). If Ahmed were interested in helping American women find “healthcare advice and services,” he would celebrate access to pregnancy centers, which offer those very services to women in their communities. Instead, his report distorts the true meaning of reproductive healthcare to advance an agenda that targets and censors any abortion alternative.
The United States Department of Justice makes clear on its own website – describing “reproductive health services, including pro-life pregnancy counseling services and any other pregnancy support facility providing reproductive health care….”
Even President Biden’s Executive Order #14076 reiterated the government’s clarity on the matter: (b) The term “reproductive healthcare services” means medical, surgical, counseling, or referral services relating to the human reproductive system, including services relating to pregnancy or the termination of a pregnancy. [Emphasis added.] Even despite this language by the U.S. government, Ahmed prefers Big Abortion’s term for pregnancy centers, “fake clinics” Yes, Ahmed uses the false, misleading, and derogatory term “fake clinics” in abundance – even to describe those centers as real, licensed medical professionals offer accurate reproductive health services under the supervision of an actual medical director.
Yet, pregnancy centers very much provide services relating to pregnancy, including exploring how to overcome obstacles that might otherwise force a woman into an abortion she does not truly desire. Such a “choice” is no choice at all. Worse yet is when such an obstacle is in the form of another person who is pressuring abortion as their choice and not hers.
Just as Ahmed imagines pregnancy centers to be “fake” (despite the US government’s definitions to the contrary), perhaps he imagines that the challenges that might coerce an unwanted abortion are “fake” as well. He demands that no one except the abortion industry is allowed to compete for her attention. This is like protecting Big Tobacco profits against those trying to help smokers quit. Or Big Gambling by muzzling those offering gambling addicts a better way.
Worse still is that Ahmed’s censorship demand, digital hate itself, would leave any woman being trafficked to only find a path to abort, the very thing her trafficker demands to maintain her illicit profitability. Censoring life-oriented outreach is to help bolster abortion industry profits and block her from receiving help to escape. Don’t be fooled again, Google. See this publication for what it is – a thinly veiled demand of Big Abortion against its primary competitors. They are not prioritizing help for women, the only protection for abortion profits.
Unlike their abortion provider competitors, who profit from only one choice, pregnancy help centers work diligently to empower women to make a choice other than abortion at no cost to the woman herself. They do this as 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations only through the charitable generosity of the life-affirming communities where they serve.
Jor-El Godsey is the president of Heartbeat International.
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