Google is directing people searching for abortion services to so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” which seek to dissuade people from getting abortions.
wrongly telling patients that abortions are linked to breast cancer or mental health issues, or telling patients that they have missed a state deadline to get an abortion, even when they haven’t.
On average across the United States, about a quarter of the top 10 search results for a person typing in “abortion clinics” are for a CPC instead,. In many states, the rate is much higher — in 13 states, Google Maps provides five or more CPCs in their top 10 search results for “abortion clinics.” In South Carolina and Arkansas, seven of the 10 results are for CPCs, and in Mississippi, CPCs make up nine out of 10 results.
The publication spoke to patients who sought abortion clinics on Google Maps and were provided with results for CPCs instead. In one horrifying example, a patient named Chey, who chose not to disclose her full name, said that staffers at a CPC not only told her false information about abortion, but encouraged her to stay in an abusive relationship, claiming that having a child would fix her abusive partner..
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