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Facebook, Instagram Remove Posts Offering Abortion Pills

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure, Amanda Seitz and Sophia Tulp reported for the Associated Press (AP).


Photo Insert: The Associated Press got a snapshot on Friday of an Instagram post from a woman offering to buy or send abortion medication over the mail, just minutes after the Supreme Court ruled to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion.



Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect on Friday. That’s when the high court overruled Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision that declared access to abortion a constitutional right.


Memes and status updates explaining how women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social platforms. Some even offered to mail the prescriptions to women living in states that now ban the procedure.



Almost immediately, Facebook and Instagram began eliminating some of these posts, just as millions of people across the United States were looking for answers about abortion availability.


According to an investigation by media intelligence firm Zignal Labs, general mentions of abortion pills, as well as those citing specific variants such as mifepristone and misoprostol, abruptly jumped Friday morning across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TV broadcasts. Zignal had recorded over 250,000 such mentions by Sunday.


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The Associated Press got a snapshot on Friday of an Instagram post from a woman offering to buy or send abortion medication over the mail, just minutes after the Supreme Court ruled to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion. "DM me if you want to order abortion pills but want them sent to my address instead of yours," the Instagram post read. It was quickly removed from Instagram.


On Monday, Vice Media reported that Meta, the parent company of both Facebook and Instagram, was removing posts on abortion drugs.





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