FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM BAN USERS WHO POST MAIL-ORDER ABORTION PILLS

Wed 29 June 2022:

Facebook and Instagram have taken down posts from users who advertised abortion drugs through mail.

According to Motherboard, Facebook removed these posts on the same day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had legalized abortion in the US, and also temporarily banned some of those users because they were in violation of Facebook’s drug policy.

“I will mail abortion pills to any one of you. Just message me,” a Facebook user posted.

Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade case last week, social media users started shared posts offering to mail abortion pills to people whose access to abortion has been stripped away.

Facebook and Instagram immediately removed such posts.

A Verge staff test produced identical results, with a post advertising abortion pills detected within two minutes.

The sale, giving, and transfer of guns and marijuana are also prohibited under Meta’s policy that bans pharmaceuticals.

“Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, gift, request or donate pharmaceuticals is not allowed,” a Meta spokesperson was quoted as saying in the report.

Lifelong Catholic U.S. President Joe Biden denounced the decision, calling it a “sad day” for the country and characterizing the court’s conservatives as “extreme.”

“The health and life of women of our nation are now at risk,” Biden said. “Make no mistake. This decision is the culmination of a deliberate effort over decades to upset the balance of our law.”

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling was applauded on Friday by the Vatican’s Academy for Life, saying it challenged the whole world to reflect on life issues.

The Vatican department also said in a statement that the defense of human life could not be confined to individual rights because life is a matter of “broad social significance.”

Former US president Donald Trump took the SC verdict as a personal triumph for appointing the judges who gave the verdict.