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ACLU Demands Apple Update iPhone’s Siri So It Directs Women To Abortion Clinics



Dec 1, 2011 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

Washington Post:

The American Civil Liberties Union has started a petition asking Apple to update Siri to direct users to places to access birth control or abortion clinics when asked.

A blog called “The Abortioners” was the first to report that while Siri can be consulted (jokingly) for places to dump a dead body, it seems to have problems directing users to locations where they can receive emergency birth control or have an abortion.

A report from The Raw Story points out that some users in the Washington, D.C., area are directed to abortion clinics in Landsdowne, Va., or in York, Penn when they ask Siri for the information. Reports from users in New York City say that Siri returns the answer, “Sorry, I couldn’t find any abortion clinics” when asked to locate those services in Manhattan.

The ACLU joins NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation in asking Apple to address the black hole in the program’s search results. NARAL sent a letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook asking him to provide more complete information in the program.


  • YERMOM

    Fucking Animals

  • Jo

    HTF can an institution like the aclwho demand a private corp. do anything. I say , see ya in court MFer. I’ll do it my way.Fuck and feed em cabbage 

  • Jo

    HTF can an institution like the aclwho demand a private corp. do anything. I say , see ya in court MFer. I’ll do it my way.Fuck and feed em cabbage 

  • YERMOM

    Mao and Stalin killed way more than Hitler

  • LeonS

    It is my understanding that nearly all of the Jewish holocaust victims could live viably on their own if allowed to do so. Not so true of the fetuses. I am all for keeping them alive, but only if a mother is free to remove them from their bodies and walk away from it. If that’s not true (and, of course, its not) then your holocaust analogy fall to pieces.

    If your personal religious views say abortion is immoral then don’t have one. If that isn’t enough for you, you might wish to consider moving to some sharia ruled country where you can enjoy a government run by religion.

  • YERMOM

    that would be like saying if my personal religious views say murder is immoral then dont murder someone, but if that wasnt enough for me I should consider moving to a sharia ruled country

    your argument falls to pieces.

  • YERMOM

    that would be like saying if my personal religious views say murder is immoral then dont murder someone, but if that wasnt enough for me I should consider moving to a sharia ruled country

    your argument falls to pieces.

  • driveswift

    Well said. As long as it is legal, the search should not direct you to misrepresented Crisis Pregnancy Centers. I would be offended by anyone’s attempts to tell me what is right for me and my family.