Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills

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12 pointsnotpushkin6 comments

They may be fake pills loaded with poison, good call.

True, but there is a double standard. The same rule that bans abortion pill sale, should ban gun sale. Feels a bit like "They may be real guns loaded with bullets, and used to murder a bunch of kids. Carry on."

Their TOS do ban gun sales.

Yeah; they don't enforce it, though. From the article:

> Yet, when the AP reporter made the same exact post but swapped out the words “abortion pills” for “a gun,” the post remained untouched. A post with the same exact offer to mail “weed” was also left up and not considered a violation.

Surely you see the irony of a "think of the children" arugment here.

I am pro women (and the partner) having the power to decide whether to abort or not, but I am not sure about the idea of such pills being advertised like that. I think I agree with Insta/Facebook. Anyway, maybe you guys in the US should study how The Netherlands have been dealing with such topic.

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