Yelp to Flag Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Point Out Clinics With Abortion Services
August 24, 2022 | California
In the latest tech-company response to a post-Roe world in which abortion information has become a battleground online, Yelp told Axios on Tuesday that it will now start providing a prominent consumer notice to crisis pregnancy center listings to more clearly distinguish them from clinics that have abortion services.
Yelp, a crowd-sourced review platform for restaurants and other businesses, has made a series of moves since 2018, when CEO Jeremy Stoppelman ordered the company to make sure crisis pregnancy centers were differentiated from abortion clinics in the company’s listings. In the ensuing years Yelp has re-categorized thousands of service providers as crisis pregnancy centers.
In its newest move, Yelp will add a consumer notice to both faith-based and non-faith-based crisis pregnancy centers, pointing out that they “provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite,” Axios reported…. (Excerpt from Newsmax)
