Earlier this week, the audience was unable to access many posts on the Aid Access page, a company that offers abortion pills. Some pictures were unclear, with no option to click on it and view the post. Others appeared simply as a gray box with an unwanted alternative text, as if the image was not loaded.
Aid arrival Patients connect to doctors who provide abortion pills through health care dates, and Participations that have been banned It is aware of the instructions included to perform miscarriages at home using pimples. Issues on Instagram – It was reported for the first time by Jessica Valnte – also It is said Make it difficult to find the AID Access account using the search function in the app.
By Thursday evening, dead It has recovered A few Aid Access posts, although some seem to be missing. This last incident is just another example of how Mita restricts abortion information online for years. It also comes in the middle of Meta’s right -wing axis, as the company began allowing more hostile content for transgender and racist and the content that urges hatred on its platforms while flirting with Donald Trump.
Drug miscarriage can be performed in the first three months of pregnancy safely at home, According to the World Health Organization. Servant service providers, such as those working with Aid Access, described the abortion pills for hundreds of thousands of patients. Thanks to the protection laws, which protect health care workers who provide this procedure, patients in the states where abortion prohibits or restricts it can also request abortion medications.
Rebecca Davis of Harvard University says: Social media is an important place for patients to obtain information about miscarriages Hello JinWhich provides virtual reproductive care such as miscarriage and birth control.
“[Patients] “We often resort to social media to ensure our legitimacy,” says Davis, who leads the company’s marketing. “We have spent a lot of time and energy to really build our social presence, so our identity has been verified on Instagram, and we were verified on Tiktok.”
Hey Jane has faced Instagram restrictions in recent days as well. Davis says the group has received messages that it was not easy to access its Instagram file through the app features in the application. Edge He managed to repeat the problem: writing with “Heyjane” or “Hey Jane” did not show the account as proposed. Users will need to know the full identifier of the account, @heyjanehealth, to appear as a proposal.
“We know that by not appearing in these searches, we directly affect people who are actively looking for basic health care at a very appropriate time by obtaining the information they need to make decisions,” Davis said. Edge.
Mita Irene Logan’s spokesman said Edge In an e -mail message stating that the groups concerned with abortion rights face “a variety of problems – some of them due to the correct implementation, as well as excessive implementation.” Logan said that the company prohibits the sale of pharmaceutical drugs on dead platforms Without LEGitscript certificate. (Hey Jane is among the service providers accredited with Legitscript.
“We have been completely clear in recent weeks that we want to allow more expression and reduce implementation errors – and we are committed to doing this,” Logan added, although no details are mentioned. Regarding the problems you faced, Jin, Logan’s face Edge To dead PoliciesAnd, which states that the content that promotes the use of pharmaceutical drugs is permitted on the statute, but it may not be eligible for recommendation.
In recent weeks, dead have retracted her policies on what users can say and what they cannot say on their platforms, which opened the door to more hate speech and abusive content under the guise of “freedom of expression”. But service providers have long have information about abortion restricted or deleted, according to groups such as Amnesty International and Non -controlled reproduction. Davis from Hey Jane says that this is not the first time that the group’s profile on Instagram is invisible in the search: Something similar happened in 2023, when the fake Hey Jane accounts appeared in the search instead.
Although the abortion groups have faced problems on dead platforms, Davis says that it is not like that simply like moving to another social networking site. Many Instagram patients and other platforms such as Tiktok are used to find urgent information.
“Although this moment certainly indicates the importance of diversifying the platforms we are on, this does not necessarily mean that people who are looking for abortion care will be away from these platforms,” says Davis.