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YouTube Slaps Dehumanizing Pro-Abortion ‘Context’ Onto Pro-Life Videos


BY: SOPHIA CORSO | OCTOBER 13, 2022

Read more at https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/13/youtube-slaps-dehumanizing-pro-abortion-context-onto-pro-life-videos/

Google-owned YouTube has been flexing its censorship muscles against conservative voices for a while, but the Big Tech company’s tactics just got even worse: Now, tacked onto the posts of pro-lifers, YouTube is directing users to pro-abortion information.

This means that life-affirming videos — such as those that tell the truth about the grisly details of abortion, share deeply held Catholic beliefs on the sanctity of life, and discuss alternatives to abortion, such as the life-saving pregnancy centers Democrats have slandered — will now have links slapped onto their videos that direct viewers to the pro-abortion talking points they’re advocating against. YouTube is following its predictable partisan pattern, using the cover of “misinformation” and “context” to dehumanize unborn human lives.

YouTube’s purported “context” accompanying the videos reads “abortion health information,” with a definition from the National Library of Medicine (NLM): “An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. The procedure is done by a licensed healthcare professional.” And though YouTube hides behind the cover of medical “experts” at the NLM, like it did when it censored Covid-19 dissenters, it’s notable that NLM is just another hub of progressive federal government bureaucrats within the National Institutes of Health that plugs abortion and has reportedly published thousands of papers on “racism and medicine.”

YouTube’s “context” disclaimer also includes a link to the NLM’s abortion informational page, which suggests ways to abort a child: “medication abortion” or “procedural abortion.” The former is a chemically induced abortion in the first trimester, during which time babies’ limbs, skeletons, and major organs are fully developing, their hearts are beating strong, and they can taste and feel pain. In this type of abortion, the mother takes a pill that blocks nourishment and blood from the unborn baby, which kills it. The mother then takes a second pill to cause contractions and severe cramping and bleeding, leading to the delivery of her dead child.

“Procedural abortion” after the first trimester entails a dilation and evacuation abortion (D&E), in which an abortionist dilates the mother’s cervix and then uses a suction tube and sopher clamp to kill the unborn child by ripping its body apart limb by limb. The National Library of Medicine page linked by YouTube describes this in wholly dehumanizing terms, describing the dismemberment abortion as “a procedure to remove the pregnancy from the uterus.”

Under the “Learn More” section of this NLM abortion information webpage, it includes links to pages such as “Abortion Care,” “Ending a Pregnancy,” and “Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care,” but no pro-life pages or post-abortion testimonies discussing the horrific realities of abortion, such as this Live Action video to which YouTube attached its abortion-sanitizing “context.”

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“Adding these disclaimers is clear political bias on the part of YouTube against pro-life groups and messaging,” policy analyst Clare Morell told the Catholic News Agency. “Rather than allowing for free speech and debate in today’s modern public square, YouTube is preferring one side and position over the other by adding these disclaimers. And attempting to prejudice viewers against the pro-life position.”

This is certainly not the first time Big Tech has attempted to choke out pro-life perspectives. In August, after pressure from House Democrats, Google announced it would change its search results “to distinguish pro-life pregnancy centers from abortion clinics in search results for people dealing with crisis pregnancies.” In other words, Google would ensure that women exploring abortion online wouldn’t stumble on a wholistic women’s pregnancy center that would give them a different choice.

Google’s YouTube is not new to putting disclaimers on videos in the name of fighting misinformation, either. The tech giant has added so-called context to videos discussing Covid-19 too, and it even went so far as to suspend people from its platform — including Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. — for purportedly “spreading misinformation” on the topic.

Sophia is an intern at The Federalist and a student at Le Moyne College. She majors in English and intends to pursue a career in journalism.

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One-Third of ‘Pro-Choice’ Women Turn Against Abortion After Viewing Video of Procedure


waving flagby Dr. Susan Berry  27 May 2016

URL of the original posting site: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/27/one-third-of-pro-choice-women-turn-against-abortion-after-viewing-video-of-procedure/

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A survey shows that a four-minute medical animation video of what happens during an abortion leads over a third of “pro-choice” women to view abortion “less favorably.”

Pro-life organization Live Action’s “man-on-the-street” video below shows people watching a medical animation video of a Dilatation & Evacuation surgical Abortion Procedures video, narrated by former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino.

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I AM A PERSON with PoemDuring this second trimester abortion procedure, the abortionist uses instruments to tear the baby’s arms, legs, and body organs, and crush his or her head prior to extracting the baby’s remains from the uterus.

Live Action used independent polling company Survey Monkey to conduct an online video survey of 502 women between the ages of 18 and 30 who watched the video. The responses of the 208 women who identified themselves as “pro-choice” were then analyzed.

Asked if the video changed their view of abortion, 34 percent of the “pro-choice” women said the video led them to view abortion “less favorably,” including 25 percent “somewhat less favorably” and 9.1 percent “much less favorably.” Survey results showed that 62 percent of “pro-choice” women viewed abortion the same as they did prior to watching the surgical abortion video.

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Why isit legal When the “pro-choice” women were asked if there should be more or fewer restrictions on abortion after viewing the video, 28.4 percent said more restrictions, 29.3 percent said fewer restrictions, and 42.3 percent said restrictions should remain as is.

When the “pro-choice” women were also asked who should see the video of the second trimester abortion (they were invited to check as many categories as they wished), 46.6 percent said “high school sex education classes, 42.8 percent responded “college students,” 39.4 percent said “pregnant women considering abortion, 38.9 percent answered “general public,” 26 percent said elected officials, and 34.1 percent said “none of the above.”

Many pro-life Facebook commenters have responded to the “man-on-the-street” video with surprise that individuals who self-identify as “pro-choice” actually have no idea of what happens during an abortion or of how developed unborn babies are during the second trimester of pregnancy.

“After watching the man-on-the-street interviews, people are commenting that they had always assumed most ‘pro-choice’ people knew what abortion entailed and supported it anyway, but that this video has helped them to see the power of educating others,” president of Live Action Lila Rose tells Breitbart News. “While the people we interviewed were used to just repeating the pro-abortion talking points they had learned from politicians, the media, and the abortion industry, in four minutes, they saw the truth that changed their minds.”

“That proves what we’ve said all along,” she adds. “This is a winning battle.”its time

A recent Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll found a full 81 percent of Americans favor some restrictions on abortion — including limiting the procedure after the first three months — and a continued ban on public funding of abortion.

In the survey of 1,700 Americans, even 66 percent of respondents who identify themselves as pro-choice say, “Abortion should be allowed, at most, in the first trimester, in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother, or never permitted.”

Rose also observes the abortion industry continues to work “to keep women in the dark about how developed their preborn children in the womb are and what abortion procedures actually entail for both the mother and the child.” Thus, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and others in the abortion lobby fight against mandatory ultrasounds prior to making the decision to have an abortion, and protest when “fetuses” are humanized.

“The more people learn about abortion, the more they see how barbaric and inhumane it is — whether the abortion is committed by depriving a preborn child of nutrients for days until she dies, or by ripping her limbs apart while she’s still alive, or by injecting her with a drug to induce cardiac arrest,” Rose explains.ROE

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