{"id":18772,"date":"2022-08-26T02:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=18772"},"modified":"2022-08-26T02:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:36:15","slug":"google-to-clearly-label-us-medical-facilities-that-provide-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/08\/26\/google-to-clearly-label-us-medical-facilities-that-provide-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to clearly label US medical facilities that provide abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will clearly label medical facilities in the United States that provide abortions in its search results and in Google Maps to avoid confusing them with anti-abortion centers, its top executive informed lawmakers on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>When users search for &#8220;abortion clinics near me&#8221;, the results box will display facilities verified to provide abortions, said Mark Isakowitz, vice president for government affairs and public policy for US and Canada at Google, in a letter to Senator Mark Warner and Representative Elissa Slotkin.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant will also allow people to broaden their search to show other relevant listings, including from organizations that do not provide abortions, Isakowitz said.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s response follows a letter dated June 17 from Warner and Slotkin urging Alphabet Inc\u00a0Chief Executive Sundar Pichai to prevent misleading Google search results that directed users to anti-abortion centers.<\/p>\n<p>About half of US states have or are expected to seek to ban or curtail abortions following Roe&#8217;s reversal. The states, which include Idaho, Texas, and 11 others, have adopted &#8220;trigger&#8221; laws banning abortion upon such a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will clearly label medical facilities in the United States that provide abortions in its search results and in Google Maps to avoid confusing them with anti-abortion centers, its top executive informed lawmakers on Thursday. When users search for &#8220;abortion clinics near me&#8221;, the results box will display facilities verified to provide abortions, said Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18774,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions\/18774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}