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Google Maps will label clinics that provide abortion services
Source: Washington Post
Google will begin specifically labeling medical clinics and hospitals that provide abortion care in its Maps app and websites.
The move comes in response to years of complaints from users and abortion advocates that its search results for abortion care often return links to crisis pregnancy centers that do not provide abortions and sometimes actively try to dissuade people from getting them.
“For a number of categories where we’ve received confirmation that places offer specific services, we’ve been working for many months on more useful ways to display those results,” Lara Levin, a Google spokeswoman, said in a statement. “We’re now rolling out an update that makes it easier for people to find places that offer the services they’ve searched for, or broaden their results to see more options.”
Google said it works with authoritative data sources and also calls locations to confirm they offer abortion care. Places that the company is unsure of but still come up in search results will also get a label saying that they may not offer abortion services. TechCrunch reported the change earlier Thursday.
The move comes in response to years of complaints from users and abortion advocates that its search results for abortion care often return links to crisis pregnancy centers that do not provide abortions and sometimes actively try to dissuade people from getting them.
“For a number of categories where we’ve received confirmation that places offer specific services, we’ve been working for many months on more useful ways to display those results,” Lara Levin, a Google spokeswoman, said in a statement. “We’re now rolling out an update that makes it easier for people to find places that offer the services they’ve searched for, or broaden their results to see more options.”
Google said it works with authoritative data sources and also calls locations to confirm they offer abortion care. Places that the company is unsure of but still come up in search results will also get a label saying that they may not offer abortion services. TechCrunch reported the change earlier Thursday.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/25/google-maps-abortions/
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