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Poppy Noor

Google targets low-income US women with ads for anti-abortion pregnancy centers, study shows

Basket of fetues models at a pregnancy crisis center
Anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centers have been known to use shady tactics to convince women to keep their pregnancies. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Low-income women in some cities are more likely than their wealthier counterparts to be targeted by Google ads promoting anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers when they search for abortion care, researchers at the Tech Transparency Project have found.

The research builds on previous findings detailing how Google directs users searching for abortion services to so-called crisis centers – organizations that have been known to pose as abortion clinics in an attempt to steer women away from accessing abortion care.

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