Exclusive: Yelp to flag listings for crisis pregnancy centers

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Source: Axios

Yelp is adding a prominent consumer notice to crisis pregnancy center listings to more clearly distinguish them from clinics that provide abortion services, in a policy change shared first with Axios.

The big picture: Yelp's move is the latest tech-company response to a post-Roe world in which abortion information has become a significant online battleground, with both sides of the debate applying intense pressure.

Driving the news: Starting today, Yelp will add a consumer notice to both faith-based and non-faith-based crisis pregnancy centers noting that they "provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite.

"It's the latest in a series of moved Yelp has made since 2018, when CEO Jeremy Stoppelman directed the company to make sure crisis pregnancy centers were differentiated from abortion clinics in the company's listings.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/yelp-crisis-pregnancy-centers-flag

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[NoRethugFriends]

1. Or how about they remove them entirely

Since all they do is lie to women

[Lonestarblue]

2. Every little bit helps. WaPo has an article today about teens in Tennessee forming a sex

ed group to educate themselves since their schools are not allowed to teach anything but abstinence. I hope this kind of activism spreads like wildfire to help overcome Republican rights’ theft. I gifted the article so there’s no paywall.

https://wapo.st/3wM425x

[Novara]

3. That should have been done long ago

It's good they're doing it now but everybody has known about this lie for years already.

[DURHAM D]

4. They also need to stop giving my tax dollars to these

faith based bullshit organizations.

[ShazzieB]

5. Now if only Google would do this!

These places come up in searches for abortion clinics, abortion services, abortion care, etc. It makes me see red!

To make matters worse, a lot of them have misleading names like Pregnancy Help Center, Pregnancy Care Center, Alternatives Pregnancy Center, etc.

At least this state doesn't give them any funding, so I can take a *little* comfort in that.

Here's an article on the devious tactics these tactics engage in and how Gogle comes in: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-google-search-abortion-clinic-crisis-pregnancy-center/

[Hekate]

6. Excellent. Apparently started moving toward this in 2918

[IcyPeas]

7. this is good. I never would've thought of looking at Yelp for abortion services but I guess it may

come up in a search.