Google Maps Hid DC Pro-Life Pregnancy Center

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Google Maps removed directions to a Washington, D.C., pro-life being pregnant heart and as an alternative provided searchers choices that included an area Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.

Users who tried to seek for Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center on Monday by way of Google Maps (on both iPhone or desktop) discovered that Google Maps didn’t supply instructions to the situation. Instead, Google Maps advised two completely different doula areas, a pro-life being pregnant heart throughout the river in Maryland, and “Planned Parenthood – Carol Whitehill Moses Center,” an abortion clinic.

The Daily Signal reached out to Google on Monday round 11 a.m. after confirming that Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center couldn’t be discovered on Google Maps (although it could possibly be discovered on Apple Maps). Shortly afterward, the being pregnant heart’s location grew to become out there on Google Maps.

Google confirmed to The Daily Signal that the being pregnant heart’s location had, in actual fact, been eliminated.

“This listing was incorrectly removed and we have since reinstated it,” a spokeswoman instructed The Daily Signal. “We use many sources to keep Maps updated, including feedback from our community, information from businesses, and imagery. When we find inaccuracies, we correct them as quickly as possible.”

Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center clinic director Janet Durig instructed The Daily Signal on Tuesday afternoon that she want to assume this incident was an accident.

“But when you think of all the past things that have taken place affecting the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center in a negative way,” she stated, “I can’t help but wonder if this was on purpose.”

“It comes back to totally misunderstanding the extensive services that we offer women in crisis pregnancies,” she added. “The fact that, yes, we offer pregnancy testing and we offer options, education, but we also go way beyond this with walking with them for months, if not sometimes years, and helping them with their child with material resources, emotional resources, and spiritual support.”

Google has repeatedly been accused of suppressing or censoring pro-life viewpoints and content material. YouTube, which is owned by Google, automatically flags all abortion-related content material with the outline: “An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. The procedure is done by a licensed healthcare professional.”

Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center has additionally been the main target of assaults and vandalism within the wake of the leak of the draft opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade would quickly be overturned.

In June 2022, shortly earlier than the overturn of Roe, a vandal or vandals dumped a bucket of pink paint on the being pregnant heart, spray-painted the phrases “Jane’s Revenge” on the wall of the middle, and egged the home windows.

The pro-life being pregnant heart is a few four-minute drive from the Supreme Court and gives child clothes, child meals, and different sources to needy D.C.-area dad and mom who come to the middle hoping they’ll discover assist slightly than resort to abortion.

Durig, the clinic’s director, shared with The Daily Signal in October 2022 that the Metropolitan Police Department had elevated its presence across the heart because of the vandalism. Though the middle itself had elevated safety measures, she stated on the time, there had nonetheless been a number of incidents involving a male beating on the middle’s home windows that had made her really feel very uncomfortable.

The Daily Signal also learned in October 2022 that D.C. police had suspended their investigation into the June 2022 vandalism pending additional proof. D.C. police confirmed in early August 2023 that investigation continues to be suspended pending additional proof—in different phrases, the vandal or vandals haven’t been discovered, and it’s unlikely anybody is searching for them. 

“The police have had our safety at heart,” Durig instructed The Daily Signal in August. “They inform us if they hear or know of events that might create problems.” 

On the primary anniversary of the June 2022 Supreme Court resolution in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, she stated, “two police cars sat outside our building. Last year, the D.C. police department placed QR codes in our windows. These monitor how often patrol cars pass the building.” 

“We are grateful for the officers and all they do to protect us,” she added, noting that her heart hasn’t come beneath any form of assaults since far-left protesters interrupted the center’s banquet in December 2022. That occasion occurred in Crystal City, a neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, simply throughout the Potomac River from Washington.

Her heart has by no means heard from the FBI, Durig stated, although the assaults on her heart seem to quantity to violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.” 

“There isn’t anything to say about national support,” she stated. “It would be helpful if leaders who think certain lives are expendable take the time to learn firsthand what centers like ours do to help families.” 

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