Yelp sues Texas to defend its labeling of crisis pregnancy centers | CNN Business::Yelp is suing Texas to ensure it can continue to tell users that crisis pregnancy centers listed on its site do not provide abortions or abortion referrals, opening a new front in the fight between states and the tech industry over abortion restrictions.

  • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This would funnel people away from anti-abortion practitioners and locations. They don’t want that, they WANT you to come in and be talked down to by a ‘Family Planner’. They want people to come into the church run clinics.

    • dhork@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I understand all that. What I don’t understand is the legal basis for the State’s lawsuit contending that simply stating these places don’t provide abortion services is deceptive, when abortion services are extremely hard to get in the state in the first place. (I mean, other than the obvious cynical motive of the AG harassing companies he doesn’t like for political points, but not even he would admit that in court.)

      It seems to me that Yelp’s pre-emptive legal action is really an attempt to get the adjudication of this matter out of Texas entirely.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        The legal basis for the State of Texas’s lawsuit is that it was filed by hard-right Republicans and they’re hoping to get a hard-right Republican judge who agrees with their Handmaid’s Tale worldview.