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They have to comply with the law, and there's nothing wrong with anti-abortion ads. Facebook doesn't have an obligation to only sell ads to Democrats. > subeq
by cato_the_elder 4y ago
They have to comply with the law, and there's nothing wrong with anti-abortion ads. Facebook doesn't have an obligation to only sell ads to Democrats.
> subequently made that information available to anti-abortion groups
That part is probably misleading, I'm assuming they didn't give them any kind of information, they just allowed demographic targeting like they do for most kinds of ads.
- not2b 4y agoBut there's also no law against posts providing information on "acquiring abortion pills such as mifepristone"; Facebook is choosing to remove such posts.
- vorpalhex 4y agoThere's also no law restricting guides on how to turn any rifle into an automatic machine gun... but Facebook chooses to remove those too.
- munk-a 4y agoThere is no equating healthcare to gun rights - one of these is used to make lives better and the other is used to destroy them.
- wizofaus 4y agoI'm 100% pro-abortion-rights but I can still accept that abortion is an act of destroying a life. Even in the case of taking abortion pills. But obviously most of us consider there to be a huge difference in ethical significance between destroying the life of an embryo and that of a fully grown independent human.
- munk-a 4y agoI think this is the tragedy of America - in Canada abortion is enshrined as a human right that helps to protect the lives of young people who have made a mistake instead of dooming them to a life of misery (and their future children with them). Only in America has the continuous rhetoric actually forced the idea that abortions are murder out of the fringe crowd and into the common understanding. That is truly sad.
- vorpalhex 4y agoCanada sends people to the US for abortions: https://globalnews.ca/news/7868372/coronavirus-covid-pandemic-abortion-access-canada/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7868372/coronavirus-covid-pandemi... Canada's abortion laws are more restrictive than what was under Casey.
- Hallucinaut 4y agoNo more than excising a cancer is, before the age of viability. Early on, it's just cells.
- vorpalhex 4y agoCancers don't become cooing babies if left alone to grow. Even if you are pro-choice, comparing an unborn child to a disease that kills millions is a poor move.
- nathanaldensr 4y agoIt's part of the rhetoric--the rationalization.
- wizofaus 4y agoI don't think cancer qualifies as "a life" at all sorry. Taking anti-biotics to kill a bacterial infection might be a better comparison.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoLater on, it's also just cells. That kind of naive reductionism leads us to reducing a human being to cancer.
- johnnyanmac 4y ago
- vorpalhex 4y agoI don't think a comparison between an abortion pill that terminates fetuses and a firearm are that different. Both can be used for good or bad.
- missedthecue 4y agoI don't think he's equating them as identical situations. He's using analogy to explain that Facebook's acceptable ad policies are not exactly the same as US law - and that Facebook doesn't get selective solely in the area of abortion.
- colpabar 4y agoThat's called "misinformation" now. If you disagree, join the club.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoNot explicitly, but there are laws against providing illicit access to abortion, and this can be reasonably interpreted as such.